Babis: State to start increasing number of hospital beds this weekend

The Czech state should start increasing the number of beds located outside of hospitals to serve Covid-19 patients as early as this weekend and plans to buy thousands of beds from the Linet firm, 1,000 for severe cases, Prime Minister Andrej Babis told reporters before his departure for Brussels. However, Linet director Tomas Kolar said the firm must yet manufacture the beds, mostly in Zelevcice near Kladno, central Bohemia, but it might also use production capacities in Germany. The beds are to be supplied in November, Kolar told CTK.