By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia has become the nation with most COVID-19 deaths by size of population in the world amid a surge of cases from a highly contagious coronavirus variant. Despite a tough lockdown, the seven-day rolling average of daily deaths in Slovakia has risen from 1.68 deaths per 100,000 people on Feb. 1 to 1.78 deaths per 100,000 people on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University figures issued Tuesday. Slovak President Zuzana Caputova called the situation very serious. 'We need to abide by all the rules,' Caputova said Tuesday after meeting with a group […]
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