Covid-19: Czechs very critical of the government on the management of the crisis
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The center of the old town as the Czech government imposed new restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus disease, in Prague on March 1, 2021. REUTERS - DAVID W CERNY
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The Czech Republic is currently hard hit by the pandemic.
The country's hospitals are overcrowded and Covid patients must be transferred abroad, especially to Germany, Switzerland and Poland.
The Czech government's handling of the crisis is criticized.
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With our correspondent in Prague,
Alexis Rosenzweig
Nurse Lucie Skodackova works in pulmonology in a hospital near the German border.
In a video posted by local firefighters, she recounts how the coronavirus is sweeping away her patients: "
It's terrible to have to return the personal effects of a relative to loved ones to whom they could not say goodbye and whom they hoped to have in their life still at least twenty years.
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For the Minister of Health Jan Blatny, the relaxation of containment measures is not on the agenda:
"We can consider a potential deconfinement when the number of patients has fallen
from 7,000 currently to less than 3,000. .
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The Czech Prime Minister himself admitted mistakes in the management of the crisis.
In the streets of Prague, patients tend to agree, like Pavla who only goes out to walk her baby in her stroller.
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In my opinion, one of the biggest mistakes was to reopen everything at Christmas time, the number of contaminations has continued to increase since then.
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Out for his jogging, Lukas regrets that the restrictions were often too measured and too late.
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In addition, politics got involved with the legislative elections scheduled for next fall.
And it is ordinary people who suffer from it,
”he said.
France has decided to send 15,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, while the Czech authorities have already contacted Moscow and Beijing for Chinese and Russian vaccines.
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