Hamacek insisting on prolongation of state of emergency

The refusal to prolong the state of emergency implies a tremendous risk of collapsing healthcare and a negative development of the coronavirus pandemic in Czechia, Interior Minister Jan Hamacek told journalists today. If the state of emergency ends, regions will no longer be provisioned from the State Material Reserves Administration, there will be a big problem with deploying the military, shops will reopen, but not restaurants, Hamacek said.