“It will be a campaign, as the Prime Minister says, brutal, but also realistic, so that people know what it looks like in hospitals. In order for people to know what patients who did not get vaccinated and ended up in intensive care units look like, ”Minister Vojtěch explained the form of the new campaign after Friday’s cabinet meeting.
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Promotional materials or spots will appear in both the Internet media and in the press to reach unvaccinated seniors who do not use the Internet much.
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Vojtěch: It is necessary to wake up fellow citizens from lethargy
“I think it is necessary to wake up some of our fellow citizens from lethargy, that it is not fun and the disease can be very serious and have a very serious course. We want to show that, “added Vojtěch.
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The Czechia has long struggled with insufficient vaccination coverage. Politicians and experts have long said that the required vaccination rate of the population to significantly suppress the spread of the covid-19 epidemic is at least 80 percent. However, vaccination coverage is now just below 70 percent.
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More than 6.1 million people in the Czech Republic have completed vaccinations. Other people then have some immunity after the disease or are in the middle of the vaccination process after the first dose.
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However, public interest in vaccination has been growing in recent weeks in connection with the accelerating spread of the disease and the increasing number of infected and hospitalized.
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Although vaccines are not 100% effective, they significantly reduce the risk of a serious course of death or subsequent death in the case of an infected person. And just a large proportion of patients with covid in hospitals in the ICU are not vaccinated.
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