Prague, Prague-East and Prague-West one district? Hamáček: “Too much risk”
“According to experts, this would have to be too high a risk at a time when the epidemic trend is reversing and there is hope for rapid improvement.” Hamáček said. The application was modeled on the districts of Brno-město and Brno-venkov, which are considered to be one.
“If the epidemiological ones did not support it, then I accept it as the Central Bohemian Region. We will not contradict it any more, although it does not give us much logic, because some those areas are more interconnected than we might think, and thousands of people flow to work across the border every day, “Pecková told ČTK. She also mentioned cases where people can’t shop to their usual store because it’s outside the district.
Mayor Hřib stated in his statement that the interconnectedness of Prague and its surroundings is high and people travel just as intensively for work or to doctors. “I do not think that the risk will increase significantly if Středočech buys in a Prague supermarket after work, or when a Prague citizen goes for a walk in the woods gradually beyond the borders of Prague. Especially when they both spent eight hours together at work in one place before. In my opinion, therefore, this exception would not worsen the epidemic situationThe mayor said. He added that the resulting area would be as large as the one in Brno and that the PES index in Prague and Central Bohemia is below the national average.
Due to the worsening of the epidemic situation, the government has tightened measures since the beginning of March to increase the spread of coronavirus. People are not allowed to travel between districts, except on the way to work, to doctors or even to the office. The regulation originally required to spend free time, including walks in the countryside in the village, the cabinet recently amended the measure and free time can be spent throughout the district.
To continue the measure, the government needs a state of emergency, the extension of which it asked MPs after March 28. The measures now apply until the end of the emergency. If the state of emergency continues to apply, the Minister of Health Jan Blatný (for YES) will propose to the government that the strict rules take effect at least until the end of Easter. Easter Monday will be April 5 this year.