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Many Roma settlements are currently in isolation after some residents tested positive for COVID-19.
Food and hygiene supplies are being provided to them by municipalities in cooperation with the state.
Around 6,000 people in five Roma localities in Spiš are in quarantine, confirmed the mayor of Krompach and the mayors of the municipalities Žehra and Bystrany in the Spišská Nová Ves district.
The necessary number of police officers has been allocated who, in cooperation with the Army of the Czech Republic, are overseeing that there is no movement of people who are supposed to remain in the closed settlements.
“These people are of course being supplied with food and medicines so that they do not have to leave the settlements for shopping. Despite initial nervousness among settlement residents and attempts to find a way to leave the closed settlements, the situation is calm at present, but it continues to be monitored,” she said.
In its latest report, TV Markíza focused on the Roma settlements in Spiš, namely the municipalities of Krompachy, Žehra and Bystrany. The situation in these places is strikingly similar, since the main aim of the settlers is to get out of isolation. The police therefore have to be extremely vigilant.
For some, the food supplies are simply not enough and they are demanding above all one ingredient.
,,”I can’t manage. Yesterday I fainted because I didn’t have meat. I came here to report that we have no meat … We need meat. Five times a day, 10 dekagrams each,” Lýdia said in an interview, while asking for only one thing for her family. However, the woman must accept the standard food supplies that every settlement resident receives.
The presence of the coronavirus was confirmed in another settlement in southern Slovakia.
A patient in the Domky settlement near Kozárovka in the Levice district tested positive.
So far it is one case. Levice Hospital carried out mass testing of the settlement’s residents on Wednesday. The testing was conducted by two mobile collection units including professionally trained staff in cooperation with the laboratory workers of Agellab of Zvolen Hospital.
The settlement near Kozárovka has been in quarantine since Tuesday and is being guarded by the police. The testing was carried out in cooperation with the Regional Public Health Authority, the chief physician of the Nitra self-governing region, the police and representatives of the municipal office. All samples will be tested in the Agellab laboratories at Zvolen Hospital.
