Hospital in Uherské Hradiště forced to close ICU after tests show 10 people infected with COVID-19

The Hospital of Uherské Hradiště in South East Moravia has decided to close its intensive care unit after nine hospital employees and one patient tested positive for COVID-19. Meanwhile, 30 hospital staff members have been asked to quarantine at home and seven patients transferred to the hospitals infections unit. All other care services at the hospital remain in standard operation and intensive care is available at the nearby hospitals in Zlín and Kroměříž, the spokesman for the region’s hospitals Egon Havrlant told Czech Television.

The ICU patient who tested positive was being hospitalised after a leg operation. Following his diagnosis and subsequent wider testing it was found that some nurses and administrative employees had also contracted the disease.

Those patients and members of the hospital staff who came in contact with the infected are set to be re-tested in a few days.