Epidemiologist Petr Smejkal, for example, pointed to the high risk associated with a high proportion of positive tests. “It’s an awfully high number. It turns out that we are still missing a large number of cases, “he said. He sees the problem mainly in stagnant numbers of tests and, above all, insufficient tracing. “We still can’t catch it,” he stressed.
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According to him, there is not much room for a possible relaxation of anti-coronavirus restrictions at the moment. Another epidemiologist, Rastislav Maďar, approaches this issue in a similar way. He stated that he perceived the need for children to return to school, especially from the first grade. However, he could not guess when the time came for this step. “We still have to wait,” he added.
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According to him, the current reduction in the number of new infections is the result of reduced mobility of people, and according to him, this situation must be maintained for some time to come. Following the relaxation of the measures, it expects the incidence of the disease to increase again, and would therefore recommend setting up automatic mechanisms to respond to this within any limits.
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Laboratories in the Czech Republic will now perform up to 45,000 tests during exposed days in the middle of the week, but this number is falling from the region of the week and on weekends. According to economist Jakub Stainer, this shows that test capacities are at a good level in the Czech Republic, but the problem is their poor use. “We need to think about an incentive system that would convince people to be tested,” he said.
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According to him, a large part of those infected now avoid testing, which increases the risk of further spread of the virus.
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In the future, all participants in the scientific debate see hope in better preparedness of states and society for the next possible waves of the pandemic. They also see the development of vaccines for covid-19 as positive. The gradual penetration of the younger population could also help to gradually reduce the spread of the virus.
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