National Centre for Health Information

Slovakia has temporarily stopped the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine after a 47-year-old woman who had been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca jab died from cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.

Only those who have already received a first dose of the vaccine will be fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca, the health ministry announced Tuesday.

The glaring difference in the numbers was, it turns out as reported by the SME daily, the result of the authorities only including data from PCR tests in their reports of positive cases. They ignored data from the rounds of national mass testing done with antigen tests, which found 30,000 active cases in January alone.