SUMMARY - Monday, March 7, 2022 - 1 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - Fifty Czech professional soldiers with equipment are to come to Slovakia to help manage the humanitarian crisis connected with a mass influx of war refugees from Ukraine, the Government decided at its online session on Monday morning. BRATISLAVA - The police handled 14,202 people coming to Slovakia from Ukraine between 6 a.m. on Sunday (March 6) and 6 a.m. on Monday, with 5,361 of them being processed between midnight and 6 a.m., the police have reported on a social network. BRATISLAVA - Inoculation with the Novavax vaccine against COVID-19 will start in Banska Bystrica and Trnava hospitals on Thursday (March 10), with other facilities set to follow suit gradually, Health Ministry's spokesperson Zuzana Eliasova told TASR on Monday. BEIJING - Slovak skiing legend Henrieta Farkasova brought her collection of Winter Paralympic gold medals up to 11 by claiming the women's super combined vision impaired at the Winter Paralympic Games in Beijing on Monday. BRATISLAVA - Secondary school leaving exams will take place this year, with questions for oral parts adjusted by individual schools with regards to the remote education that has taken place, Education Minister Branislav Groehling (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS) announced at a news conference on Monday. BRATISLAVA - People fleeing the war in Ukraine are being treated for health problems and receiving necessary medical care in Slovakia, Health Ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Elisasova has reported, adding that in the event of life-threatening emergencies, medical care is provided immediately and free of charge. BRATISLAVA - Once the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) is over, a mechanism regularly involving the public in decision-making on EU policies should be set up, European Parliament Vice-chair Michal Simecka has opined in an interview for TASR. BRATISLAVA - MPs Kristian Cekovsky and Andrej Stancik (both OLaNO) announced on Monday that they are filing a criminal complaint against people active on a social network under the names Lubos Blaha, Stefan Haragin and Martin Jakubec, as their posts on the war in Ukraine might bear signs of the crimes of treason, sabotage, spreading alarmist messages, slander and threats to peace. BRATISLAVA - Slovakia's coronavirus update for Sunday, March 6, according to the National Health Information Centre's (NCZI) special website covid-19.nczisk.sk: NEW POSITIVE PCR TESTS: 3,419 Daily PCR tests: 6,564 NEW POSITIVE ANTIGEN TESTS: 1,246 Daily antigen tests: 7,086 NEW DEATHS: 17 Deaths in total: 18,704 ko