The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday expressed concern about the pandemic situation in the Czech Republic and its government’s intention to reduce the number of contacts of new coronavirus contacts.
“To defeat Covid-19, there are no alternatives to testing, tracking and isolation – neither here nor elsewhere,” the Czech WHO office told Facebook.
The Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babiss has proposed to reduce the number of contacts with new coronavirus contacts and to do so only in cases of severe symptoms.
The government could decide on this at the end of the week.
Czech officials have complained about staff shortages, with the authorities trying to track contacts in cases where patients are asymptomatic.
The head of the Prague health department told the newspaper “Pravo” that it puts the Czech Republic in a bad light because neighboring countries do not track contacts so diligently and therefore the data are not comparable.
Meanwhile, the number of new infections in the Czech Republic has reached another record in recent days.
On Monday, 563 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic, bringing the number of active cases to 8424.
214 sick people are being treated in hospital, according to data published by the Ministry of Health.
437 people have died from the new coronavirus disease Covid-19 in the Czech Republic.
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