Health Minister: regular PCR testing in schools should continue in September

Health Minister Adam Vojtěch wants regular PCR tests for Covid-19 to be administered in schools also following the summer break, he told CNN Prima News on Sunday. Vojtěch is due to discuss the issue with Minister of Education Robert Plaga on Monday. The aim is to keep schools open full time.

As of late next week, anyone over aged 16 year can register to get vaccinated against coronavirus and by the end of June that may be extended to children aged 12 to 15 years, for whom the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine is recommended by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

To date, over 1.4 million people in the Czech Republic (less than 10 percent of the population) have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus while almost 3.7 million people have at least one dose.