Police spokeswoman Kateřina Rendlová confirmed that police officers went to similar cases at night. However, she added that the exact number of violations of the measures introduced due to the spread of coronavirus, as well as how the measures were violated, will be known after the weekend.
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Such mass irresponsibility is completely unacceptable.
Jan Blatný (for YES), Minister of Health
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“Unfortunately, some restaurant and club operators are behaving very irresponsibly. According to information from the police president, patrols went out at night to a large number of cases where companies were still open after 10 pm, “the minister said.
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These, together with the limitation of the number of visitors to half the normal capacity, the maximum number of four people at the table and seats only for seating, are the conditions under which restaurants and bars could open in the third degree of severity of anti-epidemic measures.
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Fines in the millions
“Although their operators were notified as soon as the patrol left, they reopened. Such mass irresponsibility is completely unacceptable, “the minister said. He therefore called for stricter controls and for the operators of such facilities to be fined at the upper limit, ie in millions of crowns.
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A spokesman for the South Moravian police, David Chaloupka, confirmed that the police intervened during one night in one of the clubs in the center of Brno. “There were several announcements alleging violations of current government regulations. The investigation is still ongoing, the testimonies of witnesses are being supplemented, so we will not provide further information on the case yet, “said Chaloupka.
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Already on Friday, Blatný described the epidemic situation as very fragile, and according to him, any fluctuation could mean a significant deterioration. “I don’t want to scare, but we’re still on the border between third and fourth degree. Do we really want to go back to the ‘four’? If we do not all behave responsibly, it will unfortunately be restaurants, clubs and bars that will be closed again, “he added.
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At present, anti-epidemic measures are governed by the PES system, which calculates risk scores on a scale of zero to one hundred. The last thirteen days in the Czech Republic are worth 57. After seven days, which are needed to mitigate the measures, the government therefore approved last Sunday the move to the third level of risk. It is valid from Thursday and, unlike the fourth degree, there is no night curfew and restaurants, services, all shops or hotels have opened.
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