Officials say penicillin access situation result of panic, supplies to rise

Czechia should receive 300,000 packages of penicillin by the second half of November and that should mean there is an adequate supply, the Ministry of Health said on Friday. Some Czechs have recently been having trouble acquiring penicillin but ministry officials and distributors say that this has in part been caused by panic among the public. They recommend that people reserve the drug at their pharmacy in advance.

The minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, said on Friday that the problem was not a lack of penicillin but rather the fact that not all pharmacies possess stocks at present.