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  • The Czech government said Wednesday it would curb movement and close shops and services to battle a huge spike in Covid-19 cases. The country of 10.7 million people has recently fared the worst in the EU in terms of holding back the disease, according to the latest ranking by European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC). Data updated on Tuesday showed the Czech Republic had by far the most new cases and deaths per 100,000 inhabitants over the past two weeks in the EU. "The government will... curb movement and contacts with other people... with the exception of trips to work, shopping and trips to the doctor," Health Minister Roman Prymula, an epidemiologist by profession, tweeted. He said the government would also close all retail outlets except food shops, drugstores and pharmacies from Thursday morning until November 3. "The growth is huge and the measures we have taken so far have failed to flatten the growth curve," Prime Minister Andrej Babis told reporters. To battle the second wave, the Czech government has already ordered people to wear face masks in most places and closed schools, restaurants, bars, cinemas, theatres, museums and swimming pools across the country. He added the country was running out of hospital capacity and that it had asked for help abroad. "We will have about 28 American doctors coming over," Babis said. The government has also ordered almost 2,000 hospital beds, some of which will be used in a field hospital on the outskirts of Prague, currently under construction. Prymula said that if the measures adopted on Wednesday work, the spike should stop within two or three weeks. As of Wednesday, the country had registered almost 194,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases and more than 1,600 deaths. The number of new cases reported on Tuesday -- 11,984 -- was a new record. Prymula said the share of positive cases in tests was 30 percent, which he called "an immense burden within the population". "In some regions, we have already seen up to 500-percent growth in the number of infected senior citizens," he added. The Czech Republic fared relatively well battling the virus during the first wave in the spring owing to timely measures, including a lockdown. But it lifted most of them before the summer and then was rather slow to adopt new ones. frj/mas/dl
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  • Czech Republic imposes partial lockdown to fight virus
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