Slovakia's COVID-19 death toll passes 10,000

FILE PHOTO: Slovakia's Health Minister Marek Krajci receives an injection with a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the University Hospital, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Nitra, Slovakia, December 26, 2020. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa/File Photo

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovakia said on Sunday the death toll from COVID-19 has passed 10,000 in the central European country of 5.5 million.

Slovakia has been hit hard by the latest wave of the pandemic although the infection rate and hospitalisations from the virus have eased somewhat in the past few weeks.