According to the War, the government wants to monitor the spread of omicron variants by testing. The new obligation for laboratories to examine it from Sunday, December 26, with a test that can detect positive samples in people with coronavirus symptoms also has to catch it. In a week’s time, the government will review data from Britain and how serious omicron Denmark is in seniors and at-risk patients, and will take further anti-epidemic measures accordingly. In the meantime, the first cases of omicron have been confirmed in the Vysočina region; the occurrence or suspicion of a variant is already registered by hygienists in half of the regions. The most well-known cases of omicron, about forty, are in the South Moravian Region.

According to some experts, the rules of isolation, quarantine and testing should change in the Czech Republic due to omicron. Vaccines should also go to quarantine. Acquiring test results and finding infected contacts should be speeded up. Alternatively, the isolation time, which would be a negative test, could be shortened, experts say.

The new cabinet of Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) today also amended the statute of the Central Crisis Staff by abolishing the government council for health risks used by the previous cabinet of YES and the CSSD. According to Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Vít Rakušan (STAN), the council disrupted the crisis management system. “The outcomes came to the government from two sides and often led to what I call the confusion of languages,” he said. Válek announced that he still remains in the position of chief hygienist Pavla Svrčinová. She should be as tough as she was in Ostrava, he said.

People over the age of 30 may have a booster dose of coronavirus vaccine after five months from Monday, December 27, Fiala said. Until now, this age group has been able to undergo revaccination six months after the completion of the vaccination. Since the end of last December, when vaccination began in the Czech Republic, healthcare professionals have already administered over 15 million doses of the vaccine. Nearly 6.6 million people are fully vaccinated, more than two million of whom came for a booster dose, according to the Ministry of Health. However, in terms of per capita, the Czech Republic is the ninth worst in the European Union in terms of vaccination.

Those interested in the PCR test do not order the recommended coronavirus testing before the Christmas holidays, when they meet relatives, before Christmas Day in many Prague hospitals, the free dates are only after the holidays. People will have a very limited opportunity to be tested at Christmas in the Karlovy Vary region, where only one collection point will probably open on holidays. In contrast, in the south of Bohemia, the test center does not plan any major traffic restrictions.

Coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic continue to decline in the week-on-week comparison. Laboratories confirmed 11,825 on Tuesday, almost 4,900 less than a week ago. The burden on hospitals is also slowly decreasing – hospitalization now requires 4678 people with coronavirus, a week ago there were almost 6100. The number of covid patients in serious condition has dropped from 993 to 821 in the past seven days.

The so-called incidence number is also constantly decreasing. There have been 563 covid cases per 100,000 population in the last seven days, up from 608 the previous day and almost 800 on the same day last week. It has remained below the limit of one since the beginning of December.