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  • Czech government to impose mandatory Covid-19 antigen tests for employees

    Czech government to impose mandatory Covid-19 antigen tests for employees

    Czech government has ordered that all staff of all medium and large companies in the country to be tested for the new coronavirus. DPA reports.

    Thus, 2.1 million employees will have to be tested at least once in the next two weeks, after which test intervals of one week will apply.

    The decision does not apply to companies with 50 employees or less.

    Testing is mandatory for all employees and the cost of antigen tests will be paid from health insurance, but alternatively it will be possible to use self-tests, which will be subsidized.

    Companies face drastic fines if they do not comply with this measure.

  • New state of emergency in The Czech Republic

    New state of emergency in The Czech Republic

    The Czech government has called a new state of emergency. This time for another 30 days, until March 28.

    The lower house of Parliament refused to extend the current state of emergency but did pass a new pandemic law that allowed the government to impose new tougher restrictions.

    The state of emergency has been valid in Czechia since October 5 2020.

    Under the new state of emergency there will be new strict restrictions limiting people’s movement and tightening shop and school closures.

    Czechia has the highest per capita infection rate in the world over the past week.