SUMMARY - Monday, August 15, 2022 - 5 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - The Landscape Protection Office reported on Monday that it's registered eight bear attacks on people this year, while its strike team has killed seven problematic bears in the same period. BRATISLAVA - The National Blood Transfusion Service has called on the public to donate blood, claiming that there's a shortage of group A and all Rh negative blood groups. BRATISLAVA - The next meeting of the coalition partners on the coalition crisis should take place this Saturday and has been convened by Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO), TASR learnt from the For the People party on Monday. NITRA - A police investigator has charged We Are Family MP Patrik Linhart with false reporting to the authorities and defamation, with the police refusing to comment on the case any further for the time being. PEZINOK - A judge of the Specialised Criminal Court handed down a 20-month jail sentence to David K. [name abbreviated due to legal reasons] for extremism on Monday, TASR learnt on the same day. BRATISLAVA - The next round of coalition talks, convened by Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLANO) to address the Government crisis, will be held at the Borik Hotel in Bratislava on Saturday (August 20), the premier's spokesperson Lubica Janikova confirmed for TASR on Monday. BRATISLAVA - If Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) leaves the coalition, a minority government will become a reality, and the question is how SaS will approach it, We Are Family head Boris Kollar stated on Monday, adding that bills can be passed with fewer than 76 MPs in a coalition. NEW POSITIVE PCR TESTS: 93 Positive PCR tests in total: 1,827,804 Daily PCR tests: 316 NEW POSITIVE ANTIGEN TESTS: 54 Positive antigen tests in total: 768,416 Daily antigen tests: 463 NEW DEATHS: 3 Deaths in total: 20,306 zel