Hundreds of Czech police to help with Covid-19 tracing

Two-hundred to 250 Czech police officers are going to help public health officials trace people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. The minster of the interior, Jan Hamáček, said his department and the Ministry of Health had agreed on this at a meeting of the Central Crisis Staff on Thursday.

Police President Jan Švejnar said the officers would be active throughout the country and would receive training in order to be ready from Friday afternoon or Monday. He said they would take part in this activity on a voluntary basis.