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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.”