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The Deputy Minister of Health Roman Prymula yesterday released an interview for DVTV.

“England and Sweden took a conspicuously different approach to the coronavirus from its international peers, trusting the public to adopt voluntary, softer measures to delay the spread of the virus. It didn’t work properly. But a controlled approach that would not be as restrictive as it is now, may deserve attention.”

“In the beginning, we had to slow down the epidemic with strict measures. But now we have to decide whether to continue this method or to “relax” these measures – even if the epidemic goes slightly up,” Prymula said.

“It is not possible to hold tough measures indefinitely. If the growth rate of cases continues to be linear in the coming days, the bans are expected to be lifted,” he added.

“When a group at-risk is managed, the rest of the population should “meet” this virus in time and prove immune. Czechs should meet with coronavirus. I do not say everyone, but those for whom it will not be worse than the flu. And these are people of lower age, and healthy.”

However, Babiš said he disagreed with Prymula, and the idea to create herd immunity against Covid-19 in the Czech Republic.

Shops and services should return to normality after Easter. Other shops exempted from the closure include consumer electronics, florists, newspapers, magazines and tobacco products, and also pet shops and glasses shops. Banks and post offices are also untouched by the ban.

“Schools may reopen around May 15. Students have to wear face masks, it will be obligatory.”

According to Prymula, the borders will also open soon. “But I need to be clear: after everyone’s return, there is a 14-day quarantine. Travel will only be possible in countries where the risk is quite low, so I imagine we can soon travel to Slovakia – and Poland,” he concludes.

The number of new coronavirus cases may reach up to 17,000 in the Czech Republic by mid-April.

President Milos Zeman has said he will award Roman Prymula the Order of the White Lion on October 28, in recognition of his work in fighting the coronavirus epidemic.

The Czech Republic reported its slowest daily percentage rise in confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday, as the country entered fourth week of restrictions on business and movement.

The country had 4,591 cases as of Sunday midnight, up 2.6% from the previous day, the Health Ministry said on its website. This was the lowest percentage increase since early March when the country had a handful of known infections.

There were 4,710 tests done on Sunday, down from a record 6,889 on Friday but still up by nearly 2,000 from a week ago, when the daily number of detected infections was higher.

The number of people who recovered from COVID-19 has risen to 25 in the Czech Republic, while the number of deaths grew to 23.

This was announced today at a press conference after the government meeting by the Health Minister Adam Vojtech (ANO). According to Vojtěch, all the dead people were suffering from other diseases.

The increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Czech Republic is still slowing down; today, at 18:30, there have been 125 cases bringing the total to 2942.

On Sunday, the daily increase was 160 cases, on Saturday 262 and on Friday even 373. If the number of new cases won’t increase significantly, today’s daily increase could be the lowest since last Monday.

However, the number of tests for COVID-19 has been decreasing in recent days, as well. While on Friday 5247 tests have been made, on Saturday the number of tests decreased to 4300 and on Sunday to 2800.

On Saturday, the Ministry of Health reported two deaths from COVID-19, on Sunday five.

The highest number of confirmed cases is in Prague: 791. Prague also has the highest number of cases per capita, with almost 60 people with COVID-19 per 100,000 inhabitants.

The second-largest share of infected people is in the Olomouc Region, where there are currently over 43 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, while the third-largest is Karlovy Vary Region with 34 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

The Czech Republic has excluded South Korea from its list of COVID-19 risk countries and lifted the suspension of direct air routes between the two countries.

According to the South Korean Embassy in Prague on Wednesday, the Czech government has excluded South Korea and China from its list of countries with high virus risk, which was newly updated on Monday.

In the meantime, the Czech health authority has added six nations including the U.S., Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Israel, and Portugal to its 19-nation list.

However, flight operation between Incheon and Prague will likely take some time before resuming. The Czech government is currently banning the entry into the country of all foreigners, excluding long-term residents such as green card holders, through April 11.

Prague’s latest decision has apparently been affected by a declining number of confirmed cases in South Korea, and its relationship with Korean companies with operation in the country.

South Korean Ambassador to Czech Kim Tae-jin and Yang Dong-wan, head of Hyundai Motor’s Czech office, met with Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babish on Wednesday.

Hyundai Motor reportedly donated about 400,000 U.S. dollars and 20,000 face masks to the nation.

The Czech Republic ramps up efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus by banning meetings of more than two people outside the same household and mandating the closure of nonessential businesses, the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.

The news is reported by Česká Televize.

The Czech Republic’s government decided to impose a two-week quarantine on 16 March with the exception of travel to work, to health facilities, and a few other exceptions.

The Ministry of Health has recently extended the measure, until April 1.

The draconian measures which will change every aspect of Czechs lives included:

All gatherings of more than two people in public were forbidden – meaning a ban on all social events, including weddings and baptisms
Communal play and exercise areas inside parks will also be shut down, but not parks themselves
Places of worship such as churches and mosques must also shut, except to host for funerals

When in public, people should stand at least 2 meters apart.

Germany took the same measure three days ago when Merkel announced that “spending time in public space is only permitted on your own, with another person who does not live in the household or with members of your own household. When in public, people should stand at least 1.5 meters apart.”

After Italy, Spain, and Austria, the Czech Republic was the fourth European country to restrict people’s movements due to coronavirus.

As of 6pm on Wednesday, there were 1,654 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection in the Czech Republic. Health Minister Adam Vojtěch has said that there are 19 people in serious condition and on ventilation machines.

Adult entertainment website Pornhub has just given people stuck in coronavirus lockdown one more way to pass their time.

The company just announced free premium membership to viewers in the Czech Republic, after doing the same for Italy, France, and Spain, a week prior.

Users just need to agree that they will follow the safety rules and wash their hands if they spent some time outside. No credit card required to activate.

“Stay home and help flatten the curve! Since COVID-19 continues to impact us all, Pornhub has decided to extend Free Pornhub Premium worldwide until April 23rd. So enjoy, stay home, and stay safe,” the company tweeted.

A premium subscription normally costs $9.99 per month, or $7.99 per month with a year-long package.

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“In connection with the restriction of free movement, there is a growing interest in erotic tools in the Czech Republic. “Sex, masturbation, and orgasms are powerful helpers to boost immunity and good spirits. And this is crucial in today’s pandemic era. We are experiencing a 10 percent growth in March, especially for vibrators, sexy lingerie, board games, disinfectant sprays and gels for sex,” says Adam Durčák, owner of Růžový slon sex shop.

Alza.cz and Slevomat confirm the increase in interest in adult goods, as well.

Prime Minister Andrej Babis said the restrictions on movement may be extended until April 1st if the Covid-19 situation does not improve as the country went into a two-week movement restriction period on March 13th.

The government will discuss on Monday the introduction of a Kurzarbeit program – a short-time working arrangement in which civilian employees agree to or are forced to accept a reduction in working time and pay, usually introduced in times of recession.

Kurzarbeit (roughly translated, “short-time work”) is a German government program first used during the 2008 financial crisis that pays roughly two-thirds of an employee’s salary to a company that would otherwise be forced to resort to layoffs in the face of an economic downturn.

By providing for staff to remain on the job (even at reduced hours and salary) Kurzarbeit benefits both employers and employees. Workers maintain a steady stream of income, while companies avoid losing the skills these workers have acquired and which are likely to be needed once an economic upturn arrives.

The Czech Republic’s tough measures to slow the spread of coronavirus may be relaxed somewhat in three weeks, but the country’s borders are likely to stay shut to most travel for months, the head of the country’s crisis committee said on Sunday.

Schools will be closed at least until the end of May, and borders may be shut for tourist travel for many months, or even a year or two depending on circumstances, added Prymula.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic reached 1120 on Sunday, after an increase of 158 cases on Saturday.

On Saturday shortly before midnight, a large Ukrainian aircraft An-124 Ruslan landed at Pardubice Airport with five million masks, two million respirators, 120,000 protective suits, 80,000 protective goggles, and tens of thousands of coronavirus tests from Shenzhen, China.

The flight cost 35 million crowns. According to the Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch, it is one of the largest transports of medical material in the history of the Czech Republic.

According to the Minister of the Interior, three flights with similar loads should land two more times, on Tuesday and Friday.

From China, the aircraft flew through Myanmar, Bangladesh, India and refueled in Karachi. The reason for this route is the tense relations between Ukraine and Russia.

Masks and respirators from China will not remain in the warehouse for a long time. “They will be distributed immediately by the fire brigade,” said Martin Netolický, Governor of the Pardubice Region. Firefighters will allocate 35 cars and 75 people for the distribution.

“We are finally getting to the point when a relatively large number of respirators and masks are entering the Czech Republic. We can equip healthcare workers, but also the population,” said Roman Prymula.

Už je tady… 🙂 #spolutozvladneme pic.twitter.com/XNmSKLQYlU

— Jan Hamáček (@jhamacek) March 21, 2020

On Wednesday, a Czech aircraft landed in Prague-Kbely, carrying 150,000 testings kit for the coronavirus disease COVID-19.

On Friday, a planeload with one million respirators has arrived in the Czech Republic from China.

The deliveries have cost the Interior Ministry 1.5 billion crowns so far.

The projection is that with every new week that the epidemic lasts the country will spend another billion crowns on medical equipment.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic reached 995 on Saturday, with 106 new cases registered that day.

Sixive people have fully recovered from COVID-19.

There were no cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours in Hubei Province, China, including the city of Wuhan, China, where COVID-19 was first discovered, per a post on the local health department’s website Wednesday, as reported by Reuters.

This is a turning point in an epidemic that’s infected almost 81,000 Chinese and threatens to push the world’s second-largest economy into its first quarterly contraction in decades.

Wuhan was where the outbreak first took hold and thousands once lay sick or dying in hurriedly constructed hospitals. But Chinese authorities said Thursday that all 34 new cases recorded over the previous day had been imported from abroad.

“Today we have seen the dawn after so many days of hard effort,” said Jiao Yahui, a senior inspector at the National Health Commission.

Health officials are still trying to trace the source of the outbreak of the new strain of the coronavirus. But the first known case to have been reported appeared in Wuhan on Dec. 1, 2019, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet last month.

Despite continued criticism of China for its initial suppression of information and slow response to the virus, Beijing is now setting itself up as a leader in tackling it, offering assistance to other affected nations.

China ultimately sent thousands of doctors from around the country to Hubei province to help and new hospitals were built within days to house its tens of thousands of infected patients.

Globally, the coronavirus has sickened over 211,000 and killed 8,700. The outbreak has accelerated in the rest of the world, cutting a particularly deadly swathe in countries like Italy.

More than 84,000 people overall have recovered from the virus, which causes only mild or moderate symptoms such as fever and cough in most cases. Severe illness is more likely in the elderly and those with existing health problems.

Entire countries are closing their borders, canceling schools and shutting restaurants. Music festivals and sports events have been postpones, while travel and supply chains are disrupted. Economists see $2.7 trillion being wiped from the world’s gross domestic product.

A Czech aircraft landed in Prague-Kbely at on Wednesday morning at 2.30, carrying 150,000 testings kit for the coronavirus disease COVID-19.

The tests will be delivered to distribution points in the morning, especially to residents of those Czech villages that have been lockdown on Monday.

As the virus spread in Wuhan, Chinese researchers developed a more rapid “point of care” screening test, which detects antibodies that emerge some time after Covid-19 symptoms appear.

A study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Medical Virology said the test could return results within 20-25 minutes, much faster than the current standard testing.

The Ministry of Health paid about CZK 14 million for 100,000 testings kit, while another 50,000 tests were paid by the Ministry of the Interior. Transport was provided by the Ministry of Defense.

The Czech Republic wants to buy other medical supplies from China. According to Hamáček, 30 million masks could be transported on Sunday.

Other flights will be provided by Smartwings and Czech Airlines.

Remdesivir has been just approved in the Czech Republic to be used in some COVID19 cases by the Czech State Institute for Drug Control (signature form Minister of health is pending and expected soon).

Remdesivir is now being tested in five Covid-19 clinical trials that have been set up at breakneck speed. It’s been delivered through a compassionate use program to some patients, including the first case in the United States. The first trial results are expected next month, though some analysts have already raised concerns about the prospects based on the drips of data emerging from a small number of patients.

Remdesivir cripples an enzyme called RNA polymerase that is used by many viruses to copy themselves; it does not specifically target SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But it worked well in a test tube and animal studies of human coronaviruses, cousins of SARS-CoV-2 called severe acute respiratory syndrome and the Middle East respiratory syndrome, that cause similar respiratory conditions.

Others’ hopes are high for the drug. As of now, there are no approved therapies for any coronavirus infection, and Remdesivir is the farthest along in the development process of any candidate.

“There’s only one drug right now that we think may have real efficacy,” Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organization said last month. “ And that’s Remdesivir.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic reached 434 on Tuesday evening.

Three patients are in “very serious to critical condition” according to the Health Ministry. Half of the positive patients were infected abroad, the others in the Czech Republic.

Over 6,300 tests have been conducted to date. Three people have fully recovered from COVID-19.

Around 170,000 people across the globe have now been infected with the coronavirus and over 6,500 have died.

After China managed to get a handle on its sudden outbreak other countries were blindsided by huge epidemics – almost 25,000 people have caught it in Italy, around 14,000 in Iran, 8,000 in Spain and more than 5,000 apiece in Germany and France.

All Czechs will have to stay at home under the quarantine, which comes into force on Sunday, March 15 at midnight.

The decision was made to protect the most vulnerable people in the country, PM Babis said, and the measures will take effect from midnight March 16 to 6 am March 24, adding the government recommended that those who can work from home or take holidays.

“In the present situation, we see the gathering of people in shopping centres and in restaurants as too great a risk,” Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said. “By no means do we want to restrict the sale of food, pharmaceuticals, druggist goods, and fuel and other essentials. People do not need to worry: food supplies remain unrestricted and it really is not necessary for people to empty store-shelves of goods.”

In practical terms, people will be allowed to leave their homes only to buy food and medicine, commute to work, go to hospitals and banks, or take trips related to the care of the young and the elderly.

People throughout the country should not leave their homes other than for work or emergencies, Babis said.

The prohibition the free movement won’t apply to the necessary journeys to family or loved ones, to the provision of essential necessities of life, such as the purchase of food, medicines or sanitary goods, animal feed, the provision of necessary banking or postal services or refueling.

The government encourages employers to outsource their employees if they can do it at their place of residence. Furthermore, they should limit the performance of work that is not strictly necessary for the operation of the company.

The announcement marks the most extensive efforts taken by the government to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Czech police will be assisted by 2,096 soldiers and 400 customs officers, Prime Minister said.

“Only fundamental restrictions like this can help stop the spread of the infection in our country,” said Adam Vojtěch, Minister of Health. “Even though it is not pleasant for any of us, this is about protecting our health.”

“We don’t forbid anyone to take a walk. It is possible to go to the park, for example” said Interior Minister Jan Hamáček. At the same time, he criticized citizens who crowded in front of the restaurants’ entrance and consumed alcohol outside. “That seems irresponsible to me,” he said.

After Italy, Spain, and Austria, the Czech Republic is the fourth European country to order restrictions on population movements.

The restrictions come a day after the government closed most shops and restaurants for at least 10 days. Other measures include a ban on nearly all international travel from March 16 and closing schools.

The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the Czech Republic has now reached 253. Over 5,000 people have been quarantined.

Two-thirds of those diagnosed were infected abroad, one third within the Czech Republic.

The most common source of infection is Italy, with 74.5 percent of people who tested positive in the Czech Republic having contracted the disease there.

Governments around the world have stepped up restrictions on the movement of their citizens to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed nearly 5,800 people with over 153,000 infected globally, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Prague, Sunday morning#prague #czechrepublic #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/NL4skpFwPd

— Chris Lettner (@ChrisLettner) March 15, 2020

The government will discuss to quarantine the whole Czech Republic this afternoon.

What that exactly means will likely be disclosed at a special government press conference at 6 pm.

“People should stay at home, take care of older people, and today we are likely to take further measures,” said Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO). “Many people do not respect quarantine, but the virus is spreading,” he added.

People could basically just go to work and do groceries.

“If we declare quarantine of the whole Czech Republic, it must have some rules,” the Prime Minister said. According to him, it is not possible for people to violate quarantine. Penalties of up to CZK 3 million may be imposed for violations.

At the same time, all the baked goods in the shops will be packaged, and the baskets to be disinfected.

However, according to the Prime Minister, public transport will continue to work. “We also want to increase public transport so that there is no such concentration of people,” he added.

Interior Minister Jan Hamáček said that the situation is developing dynamically and that this is why all of the preventative measures are being enacted in order to slow down the epidemic as much as possible.

“We will ask hospitals to postpone scheduled operations. We need those hospitals to focus only on coronavirus,” the Prime Minister added. This also applies to ambulatory doctors and dentists.

The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the Czech Republic has now reached 231. Over 5,000 people have been quarantined.

Two-thirds of those diagnosed were infected abroad, one third within the Czech Republic. The most common source of infection is Italy, with 74.5 percent of people who tested positive in Czechia having contracted the disease there.

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