After 3.5 months, the Czechs wear no masks

In most Czech territory, you no longer have to wear masks. The exceptions are hospitals, the Prague metro, closed rooms in Silesia and areas where local outbreaks of coronavirus infection have been detected. Nightclubs and discos resumed operations.

The obligation to wear masks or other forms of covering the nose and mouth was in force in the Czech Republic for three and a half months. Epidemiologists will assess the effects of moving away from restrictions after two weeks.

People going to Prague will have to remember to wear face masks in the subway. In other public transport, it is not necessary to cover your mouth and nose, but the city authorities urge you not to give it up. Appeals and instructions on how to follow the recommendations are issued at the airport. Vaclav Havel in Prague.

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In the Czech Republic, you do not have to wear face masks in shopping malls. Posters from the entrances to these buildings have already been removed to indicate the need to wear and to keep clearances. Still, dispensers with hand disinfectants are hanging.

Discos and nightclubs resume operations from today. Orders to close catering establishments at 23. Liberalization does not apply to Silesia.

In the Zaolzie region, in the Karviná and Frýdek-Místek poviats, the most serious epidemic situation prevails in the Czech Republic. The biggest restrictions still apply there. In addition to the injunction to wear face masks indoors, they relate to the number of participants in cultural and sporting events, as well as the working time of restaurants and taverns. As the Czech Ministry of Health argued two days ago, the increase in infection in Zaolzie is due to testing at local outbreaks of coronavirus and “by no means means the arrival of a second wave of the epidemic.”

In the Czech Republic, 11,960 cases of coronavirus infection have been reported since the beginning of the pandemic. 349 patients died. There are 130 people in hospitals.

he, PAP

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