The Czech president will appoint a new health minister on Thursday to replace Roman Prymula, sacked after being recently caught violating the measures he himself had taken against the coronavirus, the spokesman said on Tuesday (October 27) of the presidency.
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Roman Prymula was photographed last week by a tabloid reporter as he left a restaurant that should have been closed under rules imposed to deal with Covid-19.
Leading the EU in the number of new deaths and new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, the Czech Republic, a country of 10.7 million inhabitants, has recorded some 270,000 cases of the disease and 2,400 deaths since March.
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President Milos Zeman will appoint Jan Blatny as health minister on Thursday,
” Zeman spokesman Jiri Ovcacek said in a tweet.
Jan Blatny is a pediatric hematologist and the deputy director of a hospital in the second Czech city, Brno.
He has no political experience.
