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Czechs impose tight lockdown amid virus surge
AVOIDING COLLAPSE: The measures bar people from traveling between counties except for work, and closes nurseries as well as schools for children with disabilities
AP, PRAGUE
With new infections soaring due to a highly contagious COVID-19 variant and hospitals filling up, one of the hardest-hit countries in the EU is facing the inevitable: the tightest lockdown since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Friday said the new series of measures is necessary “to protect the lives of our citizens.”
“We have to do it prevent a total collapse of our hospitals,” Babis said. “If we don’t do it, the whole world will watch Bergamo in the Czech Republic.”
Virus Outbreak: Dutch, Czechs plan holiday lockdowns
BANS: The two nations are to follow Germany’s lead to try to stem the rising number of COVID-19 cases, while Italy considers placing the nation under ‘red-zone lockdown’
The Guardian
The Netherlands and the Czech Republic have said they would follow Germany into strict second lockdowns over the holiday period, with Italy weighing similar measures to avoid a fresh surge in COVID-19 infections over Christmas and New Year.
In a rare television address, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday said that non-essential shops and businesses, gyms, museums, cinemas and theaters would close for five weeks after the nation’s seven-day new case average rose by more than 40 percent in the past week.
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