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The Czech president will appoint a new health minister on Thursday to replace Roman Primoula, who resigned after being caught violating the measures he took against the new coronavirus, a spokesman for the Czech Republic said today. presidency.
A tabloid photographer captured Roman Primula with his camera last week as he left a restaurant that should have closed due to regulations imposed in the fight against the new coronavirus.
At the top of the EU in terms of the number of new deaths and new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, the Czech Republic, a country of 10.7 million inhabitants, has recorded around 270,000 cases of the disease and 2,400 deaths since March.
“President Milos Zeman will take over as Jan Blatni’s health minister on Thursday,” Zeman spokesman Giri Ovcacek said in a tweet.
Jan Blatny is a pediatric hematologist and deputy director of a hospital in the second largest city in the Czech Republic, Brno. He has no political experience.
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