New Covid measures in force this week

New measures come into force this week in connection with the Covid pandemic. As of Monday people with a positive test for Covid will not need to test again or go into isolation, after recovering, for a period of 30 days.

Laboratories will no longer perform discriminatory testing for different variants since Omicron is dominant on the territory of the Czech Republic.

The once-weekly testing at primary and secondary schools will be extended to higher vocational schools.

And as of February 1st people will be able to register for the Novavax vaccine against the virus. The vaccine should be available in March.