Health update comes as country reels from assassination attempt and contends with political fallout

The Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, is in a stable condition and communicating after last week’s assassination attempt, doctors have said, as the country continues to grapple with the political fallout from the shooting.

On Monday, the FD Roosevelt hospital in Banská Bystrica said Fico’s conditiond was “stable”. “He is clinically improving, communicating and his inflammatory markers are gradually decreasing,” it said, adding: “The prime minister remains in our care.”

Fico remains in intensive care but has ‘emerged from immediate threat to his life’, Robert Kaliňák tells reporters

Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, is out of immediate danger but remains in intensive care four days after he was shot by a gunman, the country’s deputy prime minister has said.

“He has emerged from the immediate threat to his life, but his condition remains serious and he requires intensive care,” Robert Kaliňák, Fico’s closest political ally, told reporters.