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2020 coronavirus outbreak in the Czech Republic
Map of regions with confirmed (red) or suspected (blue) coronavirus cases (as of 3 March)
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
StandortTschechische Republik
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China
Index casePrague
Arrival date1 March 2020
(4 years, 6 months and 5 days)
Confirmed cases28[1]
Recovered0
Deaths
0

This article documents the impacts of the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak in the Czech Republic, and may not include all the contemporary major responses and measures.

Timeline

COVID-19 cases in the Czech Republic[1]
Date Confirmed Recovered Deaths Suspected
(Total)
New Total New Total New Total
28 February 0 0 0 0 0 0 170
29 February 0 0 0 0 0 0 193
1 March 3 3 0 0 0 0 200
2 March 1 4 0 0 0 0 211
3 March 1 5 0 0 0 0 262
4 March 3 8 0 0 0 0 340
5 March 4 12 0 0 0 0 407
6 March 7 19 0 0 0 0 483
7 March 7 26 0 0 0 0 594
8 March 2 28 0 0 0 0 787

28 January

As of 28 January 20 suspected cases were tested with negative results.[1]

28 February

As of 28 February 170 suspected cases were tested with negative results. 307 people were in home quarantine imposed by regional hygiene station, of them 77 in South Bohemian Region.[1]

March 1

The Minister of Health, Adam Vojtěch, reported that three cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed by the National Reference Laboratory.[2] The three cases are treated at the Bulovka Hospital in Prague; one of the cases had been found in Ústí nad Labem, but was transported to the Bulovka Hospital.[2] All cases are connected with northern Italy. One case is a man who returned from a conference in Udine, the second case is a woman (tourist, US citizen) studying in Milano and the third case is a man who returned from a skiing holiday in Auronzo di Cadore.[3][4]

March 2

Another case was confirmed, a woman who was on skiing holiday in Auronzo di Cadore and was staying in the same hotel as the man from a previous case.[5]

March 3

Another case was reported, a woman from Ecuador studying in Milano, a friend of the US tourist.[6]

National Security Council has taken several precautions against coronavirus spread:[7]

Later in the day The Ministry of Health banned export of all FFP3-type respirators and also banned all sales of these respirators to anyone else than medical and social institutions, public health protection institutions, integrated emergency services (police, firefighters, ambulance..) and another state institutions.[8]

March 4

Three new cases announced bringing confirmed cases count to 8.[9]

March 5

Four new cases announced: A Czech and an Italian who returned from Italy by end of February, third is related to case #3 and fourth is related to case #6.[10]

In total 12 confirmed cases out of 407 persons tested.[11]

March 6

Six new cases has been found. Total is now 18 cases in Czech Republic.[12] The Ministry of Health announced that Czech citizens returning from Italy as of 7 March will have to inform their general practitioners and remain in home quarantine for two weeks.[13][14] As of 6 March 1,011 people were already in home quarantine imposed by regional hygiene station, of them 341 in Prague, 160 in South Bohemian Region and 63 in Central Bohemian Region.[1]

Cases

Case no. Date announced Status Origin type Origin Standort Treatment facility Sex Age Nationality
City County
1[2] March 1, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Udine, Italy Prague Prague Bulovka Hospital, Prague Male ~67  CZE
A Czech man born in 1952 has attended a conference in Udine, Italy. He has contacted Czech authorities already on February 26. After returning from Italy he has stayed at home quarantine and it was found one of his Italian colleagues was confirmed COVID-19 positive. After his condition worsened he arrived to Infection Clinic at Bulovka Hospital. The test proved to be positive on March 1. He is a teacher at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague.[15]
2[2] March 1, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Milan, Italy Prague Prague Bulovka Hospital, Prague Female ~20  USA
A young woman from USA, born 1999, studying in Milan travelled to Prague through Vienna, Budapest and Brno. Feeling sick she visited Emergency at Motol University Hospital where she was handled as potentially infectious and moved to Bulovka Hospital.
3[2] March 1, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Auronzo di Cadore, Italy Děčín Ústí nad Labem Region Bulovka Hospital, Prague Male ~43  CZE
A man born in 1976 from Děčín had been skiing with his family in Italy and after returning to the Czech republic, his wife took him to a hospital at Usti nad Labem on Saturday February 29, he was positively tested and afterwards transferred from Masaryk Hospital, Ústí nad Labem to Bulovka Hospital in Prague. The rest of his family had no symptoms and remained in home quarantine pending further COVID-19 tests.
4[5] March 2, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Auronzo di Cadore, Italy Děčín Ústí nad Labem Region Masaryk Hospital, Ústí nad Labem Female 53  CZE
A Czech woman was vacationing at Alps, staying in the same hotel as positively tested Czech man (case #3). She arrived to Masaryk Hospital at Ústí nad Labem with symptomps on Sunday March 1 and she is staying in isolation there. Her husband and daughter were later also tested positively (case #7 and #8).
5[6] March 3, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Milan, Italy Prague Prague Bulovka Hospital, Prague Female 21  ECU
A young woman from Ecuador has travelled together with the American woman that proved to be infected on March 1(case #2). Both study at Milan. Even though the initial test from March 1 was negative, the subsequent retest on March 3 has been clearly positive. She is isolated at Bulovka Hospital together with another woman that travelled in the group with American and Ecuadorian. The tests of the third woman has been negative so far.
6[16] March 4, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Passo del Tonale[17], Italy Prague Prague Bulovka Hospital, Prague Female n/a  CZE
A mother of two from Prague 6 developed symptoms after visiting Passo del Tonale in Trentino region in Italy. The woman has been tested for coronavirus at an undisclosed private clinic. The positive result was unofficial, but in the afternoon it was confirmed by the Czech National Reference Laboratory. The woman is in quarantine at Bulovka Hospital and her family is self-quarantined at home.[18]
7[9] March 4, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Auronzo di Cadore, Italy Děčín Ústí nad Labem Region Masaryk Hospital, Ústí nad Labem Male n/a  CZE
A husband of the infected woman from Děčín (case #4).
8[9] March 4, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Auronzo di Cadore, Italy Děčín Ústí nad Labem Region Masaryk Hospital, Ústí nad Labem Female n/a  CZE
A daughter of the infected woman from Děčín (case #4).
9[10] March 5, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Passo del Tonale, Italy Prague Prague Bulovka Hospital, Prague Male 45  CZE
A doctor from Prague who returned from Italy by end of February. With mild symptomps he continued to examine his patients for two more days.
10[10] March 5, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Italien Prague Prague Bulovka Hospital, Prague Male 45  ITA
An Italian citizen who arrived to Prague by end of February.
11[10] March 5, 2020 Confirmed Person-to-person spread Household Děčín Ústí nad Labem Region Masaryk Hospital, Ústí nad Labem Female ~66  CZE
A woman, born 1953, has caught the coronavirus from her son (case #3). This is a first recorded person-to-person COVID-19 transmission in the Czech Republic.[19]
12[10] March 5, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Passo del Tonale, Italy Prague Prague Bulovka Hospital, Prague Male n/a  CZE
A husband of the infected woman from Prague 6 (case #6).
13 March 6, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Home isolation n/a ~1  CZE
An infant staying at home quarantine.
14 March 6, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Male n/a  CZE
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15 March 6, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Boston, United States Female n/a  CZE
A woman who returned from a conference at Boston, where a coronavirus has been confirmed.
16 March 6, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related  CZE
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17 March 6, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Auronzo di Cadore, Italy Děčín Ústí nad Labem Region Masaryk Hospital, Ústí nad Labem Female 12  CZE
The eldest daughter from the family of infected man from Decin (case #3).
18 March 6, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Auronzo di Cadore, Italy Děčín Ústí nad Labem Region Masaryk Hospital, Ústí nad Labem Female 50  CZE
A woman that was travelling in the same car as infected man from Decin (case #3).
19 March 6, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Lombardy, Italy Ústí nad Labem Region Home isolation Female n/a  CZE
A woman from Ústí nad Labem Region was skiing in Lombardy, Italy. She has no ties to any of the previous cases and is staying home at self-quarantine.
20 March 7, 2020 Confirmed Person-to-person spread Ústí nad Labem Region Household Ústí nad Labem Region Home isolation Female n/a  CZE
Sub-letting at the place of the case #19.
21 March 7, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Trentino, Italy n/a n/a Home isolation Male n/a  CZE
Has been skiing in Passo del Tonale.
22 March 7, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Boston, USA n/a n/a Home isolation Male n/a  CZE
Returned from Boston.
23 March 7, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related n/a n/a n/a Home isolation n/a n/a  CZE
Related to the case #24.
24 March 7, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Italien n/a n/a Home isolation n/a n/a  CZE
Related to the case #23.
25 March 7, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Österreich n/a n/a Home isolation Male n/a  CZE
The husband of the case #26.
26 March 7, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Österreich n/a n/a Home isolation Female n/a  CZE
The wife of the case #25.
27 March 8, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Italien n/a n/a Home isolation Male n/a  CZE
The husband of the case #28.
28 March 8, 2020 Confirmed Travel-related Italien n/a n/a Home isolation Female n/a  CZE
The wife of the case #27.

Policies to fight the contagion

At various moments, the Czech government has banned flights to China, North Italian towns, and Korea, and banned the issuing of the visas for the Iranians.

People (first citizens, then also temporary residents) who returned from Italy had to self-quarantine themselves for two weeks (pilots, truck drivers, and some medical personnel were granted exceptions by the minister of health). Temperature checks are applied at the airports and since March 7th, randomly at the border, too. The main public health officer speaks to every positively diagnosed patient and lists of people whom the patients could have infected are being assembled, investigated, and quarantined.

References

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  15. ^ "Czech Republic Cancels Flights, Bars Fans From Races Over Coronavirus". The New York Times. 2 March 2020. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 4 March 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ "Matce v Praze odhalila koronavirus soukromá klinika. Školáci jsou v izolaci - idnes.cz". www.idnes.cz. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
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