(ANSA-AFP) - BRATISLAVA, MARCH 21 - Face masks and gloves were mandatory attire as Slovakia's president swore in a new government in the EU country Saturday, against a backdrop of the COVID-19 outbreak. Prime Minister Igor Matovic has made combatting coronavirus infections and endemic corruption a pillar of his four-party centre-right coalition government. His anti-graft OLaNO party ousted the populist-left Smer-Social Democracy from power last month by galvanising voter outrage over the 2018 murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and the high-level graft that his death exposed.

"You are not taking over power," President Zuzana Caputova told new ministers, adding they were "mainly taking responsibility for this country and its citizens". Matovic, a 47-year-old former media and property mogul, vowed his would be "a government that will govern with and for the people" (ANSA-AFP).