SUMMARY
Homeless population, social shelters mental facilities and elderly nursing homes ate at risk for uncontrolled local spread ov Covid-19 disease in Europe. Herewe present a partial lockdown strategy to prevent the import of this communicable and highly contagious disease to two large shelters for homeless, as rural satellites serving for two major cities with population of more than 100 thousand with a partial lockdown strategy resulting to zero incidence within the major period of pandemics from march to july.
Key words: homeless population, Covid-19, pandemia.
Lek Obz, 2020, 69 (11): 379-380
Vladimír MASZLAK, Pavol ZEMKO, Gyorgy HERDICS, Martin JURÁŠEK, Anna PAVLOVIČOVÁ, Francis RADI, Katarína BUNDZELOVÁ, Michaela KOSTIČOVÁ, Silvia ZABAVOVÁ, Peter GOMBITA, Anton FABIÁN, Alena MATEJOVÁ,
Peter LACA, Michal VALACH, Milan SCHAVEL, Dávid TONZAR
1 Bonus Pastor Institute and Shelter, Zniev Monastery and Vricko Branch, Slovak Republic
2 Boldog Laszlo Strattman Battyani Institute, Bos - and SEU Health Post Vamsozabadi, Hungary
3 Oasis of Peace and DeDo Associates, SEUC, Košice, Bernatovce, Slovak Republic
4 Bl. P.P. Gojdic Institute Prešov, Bl. J. Hopko Institute, Spišska Nová Ves, Slovak Republic
5 Bl. S. Salkahazy Institute Rožňava, HS Shelter, St. John Dept of Social Work Skalica, Slovak Republic
6 St. Cyrillus Institute Partizánske, Slovak Republic
7 St. John Paul Institute of Missiology Polianky, Branch Jan Hus Institute Prague, Czech Republic
8 ICRC and SEUC refugee and migrant Programme Nickelsdrof, Austria
Vladimír MASZLAK, Pavol ZEMKO, Gyorgy HERDICS et al: Zero COVID-19 incidence among two large shelters of homeless population in rural settlement - in march-to july 2020: an important role of partial lockdown. Lek Obz, 2020, 69 (11): 379-380
