The Hygiene Station in Prague has decided to add to the measures announced on Thursday by the Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch (for YES) the addition of the obligation to wear veils in non-residential medical facilities. Is the situation in Prague worse than in other parts of the Czech Republic?
Yes. There is a steady increase here. However, it cannot be compared at all with the situation in Frýdek-Místek. Prague is a complex problem. There are many medical facilities where patients from different parts of the country go, and that is why we have approached this.
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What is now the most important fact for hygienists to implement measures against coronavirus?
It is a weekly incidence, the incidence of the disease in people over 65, which is not alarming now. Another data is the number of hospitalized, which is also not very high. But we must be ahead.
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So if the number of hospitalized increases, further measures will be taken.
Of course. Then the wearing of veils would spread to all public buildings again. This situation can occur.
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Although more infected now, the course is generally less severe. Why is it?
We assume that the virus is not so expansive. It could also change characteristics or people who are more susceptible to the disease, so they are not exposed to the disease.
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Director of the Prague Hygiene Station Zdeňka Jágrová
Photo: Vít Šimánek, ČTK
Both new measures introduced by Minister Vojtěch are aimed at mass events inside the buildings. The Minister linked this to a case from the Prague company Techtle mechtle. There, after the party where the person was infected, more people became infected. So are clubs really the biggest risk now?
The biggest problem in Prague is the mentioned event in this club. It had a large number of participants and it is very difficult for us to talk to them. It is also a closed group of young people who were members of sports clubs, so the disease was transmitted. However, we assume that we will close the cluster within the next week and there will be no more new cases. Gradually, the focus will also go out.
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So if clubs in general aren’t the biggest problem, then what?
If I knew, we would go up there, wipe them all out and have no problem. But I don’t know.
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And what about medical facilities or homes for the elderly?
There is no risk in the sense that everyone who comes there would become infected. But there are people for whom the disease would pose a greater risk in case of illness. But the devices are safe.
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Veils will now be mandatory at events inside buildings where there will be a hundred or more people, but unless it is an organized event, they will not be mandatory. What logic do you think is in terms of spreading the virus?
You have to ask the Ministry of Health about that. I do not want to comment on this. I don’t know what was behind it.
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