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More testing points open across the country
Everyone will have a chance to get tested, the city of Bratislava said in an effort to calm down people who failed to book a date for antigen testing, after the cabinet declared that a negative test result will be required when going to work from January 27.
The United Nations Security Council approved on January 15 the appointment of
veteran Slovak diplomat Ján Kubiš as the UN Libya envoy, nearly a year after the last mediator stepped down. (Reuters)
Multinational company
AT&T Global Network Services Slovakia reportedly plans to dismiss 440 people due to redundancy, the Aktuality.sk website reported. The trade unions said that it can lay off some 300 people, which is about one tenth of its workforce.
Nearly
€211 million was collected through
the e-toll system in 2020, down by 4.6 percent compared with the previous year. More than €2 billion in total has been collected since the system was launched in 2010.