Opposed to anti-Covid vaccines, Hana Horka, singer of the Czech folk group Asonance, died Sunday at the age of 57 after having deliberately contracted the virus in order to obtain her health pass, announced her family.
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Asked Monday, January 17 on public radio iRozhlas.cz, the singer's son, Jan Rek, explained that his mother refused to be vaccinated and voluntarily exposed herself to the disease that he and his father, both vaccinated, had caught before Christmas.
"
She decided to live normally with us and preferred to catch the disease rather than get vaccinated
," said Jan Rek.
Two days before her death, Hana Horka wrote on social media:
“I survived...it was colorful.
So now there is going to be theatre, sauna, concert, sauna... and an urgent trip to the sea
.”
In the Czech Republic, proof of a vaccine or the recent release of Covid is required in all cultural and sports venues, as well as in bars and restaurants.
Jan Rek accused local figures of the anti-vaccine movement of having convinced his mother not to be vaccinated and thus to have “
blood on her hands
”.
“
I know exactly who formed her opinion (...) I am sad that she believed strangers more than her own family.
It was not just total disinformation but also opinions on natural immunity and the antibodies created by catching the disease
, ”lamented the singer's son.
The Czech Republic is currently facing a new epidemic wave, with more than 20,000 new positive cases detected on Monday.