A fresh outbreak of the disease was also detected in Hungary, some 15 kilometres from the Slovak border near Bratislava.
Citizens across Slovakia have been protesting for months over Prime Minister Robert Fico’s shift towards Russia and away from the EU.
Thousands of anti-government protesters commemorate the seventh anniversary of the killings of an investigative journalist and his fiancée in Slovakia.
The Slovak prime minister’s parliamentary majority came under threat when several lawmakers defected from their posts.
Slovakia’s Moscow-friendly prime minister has faced accusations by the country’s largest opposition party of trying to take the country out of the EU.
Slovakia’s Moscow-friendly prime minister has faced accusations by the country’s largest opposition party of trying to take the country out of the EU.
The leaders of Ukraine and Slovakia are locked in a spiralling dispute over supplies of Russian gas, and can’t even agree on a location to hold further talks.
The protests started back in December after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.