World

30,000 Officers Set To Enforce COVID-19 Travel Restrictions In Czech Republic

Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images

Gabrielle Temaat Contributor
Font Size:

A force of 30,000 officers was involved in an operation banning people from leaving the country as part of a new COVID-19 restriction in the Czech Republic, according to the Associated Press (AP).

The operation is one of several measures implemented Monday as the nation tries to slow the spread of COVID-19. Military forces and police officers established 500 checkpoints across the Czech Republic, according to the AP. Residents are only allowed to travel outside of the country for work or to care for relatives, the AP reported.

Prime Minister Andrej Babis said the goal of the initiative was to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. There were 7,049 COVID-19 patients in Czech hospitals as of Sunday, and 1,507 of them needed intensive care, according to the AP. (RELATED: New Coronavirus Restrictions Enacted Across Europe As New Cases Rise)

Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis gives a statement as he arrives at the Mozarteum University to attend a plenary session part of the EU Informal Summit of Heads of State or Government in Salzburg, Austria, on September 20, 2018. (CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Czech Republic’s Prime Minister Andrej Babis gives a statement as he arrives at the Mozarteum University to attend a plenary session part of the EU Informal Summit of Heads of State or Government in Salzburg, Austria, on Sept. 20, 2018. (CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

The nation has the highest rate of positive COVID-19 cases per-capita in the world, with 109.82 cases per 100,000 people, the AP reported.

Czech residents reportedly cannot leave their municipality for exercise, effective Monday. Nursery schools have been closed and only stores that sell essentials remain open, according to the AP.

The country is speeding up its vaccine rollout as general practitioners join vaccination centers. Over 650,000 doses of the vaccine have been administered, according to official COVID-19 statistics. Babis said the country expects 1 million shots to arrive in March and another 2.6 million in April, the AP reported.

Babis and President Milos Zeman said they would use Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine even if the European Medicines Agency doesn’t approve it, according to the AP.

PREMIUM ARTICLE: Subscribe To Keep Reading

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign Up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
BENEFITS READERS PASS PATRIOTS FOUNDERS
Daily and Breaking Newsletters
Daily Caller Shows
Ad Free Experience
Exclusive Articles
Custom Newsletters
Editor Daily Rundown
Behind The Scenes Coverage
Award Winning Documentaries
Patriot War Room
Patriot Live Chat
Exclusive Events
Gold Membership Card
Tucker Mug

What does Founders Club include?

Tucker Mug and Membership Card
Founders

Readers,

Instead of sucking up to the political and corporate powers that dominate America, The Daily Caller is fighting for you — our readers. We humbly ask you to consider joining us in this fight.

Now that millions of readers are rejecting the increasingly biased and even corrupt corporate media and joining us daily, there are powerful forces lined up to stop us: the old guard of the news media hopes to marginalize us; the big corporate ad agencies want to deprive us of revenue and put us out of business; senators threaten to have our reporters arrested for asking simple questions; the big tech platforms want to limit our ability to communicate with you; and the political party establishments feel threatened by our independence.

We don't complain -- we can't stand complainers -- but we do call it how we see it. We have a fight on our hands, and it's intense. We need your help to smash through the big tech, big media and big government blockade.

We're the insurgent outsiders for a reason: our deep-dive investigations hold the powerful to account. Our original videos undermine their narratives on a daily basis. Even our insistence on having fun infuriates them -- because we won’t bend the knee to political correctness.

One reason we stand apart is because we are not afraid to say we love America. We love her with every fiber of our being, and we think she's worth saving from today’s craziness.

Help us save her.

A second reason we stand out is the sheer number of honest responsible reporters we have helped train. We have trained so many solid reporters that they now hold prominent positions at publications across the political spectrum. Hear a rare reasonable voice at a place like CNN? There’s a good chance they were trained at Daily Caller. Same goes for the numerous Daily Caller alumni dominating the news coverage at outlets such as Fox News, Newsmax, Daily Wire and many others.

Simply put, America needs solid reporters fighting to tell the truth or we will never have honest elections or a fair system. We are working tirelessly to make that happen and we are making a difference.

Since 2010, The Daily Caller has grown immensely. We're in the halls of Congress. We're in the Oval Office. And we're in up to 20 million homes every single month. That's 20 million Americans like you who are impossible to ignore.

We can overcome the forces lined up against all of us. This is an important mission but we can’t do it unless you — the everyday Americans forgotten by the establishment — have our back.

Please consider becoming a Daily Caller Patriot today, and help us keep doing work that holds politicians, corporations and other leaders accountable. Help us thumb our noses at political correctness. Help us train a new generation of news reporters who will actually tell the truth. And help us remind Americans everywhere that there are millions of us who remain clear-eyed about our country's greatness.

In return for membership, Daily Caller Patriots will be able to read The Daily Caller without any of the ads that we have long used to support our mission. We know the ads drive you crazy. They drive us crazy too. But we need revenue to keep the fight going. If you join us, we will cut out the ads for you and put every Lincoln-headed cent we earn into amplifying our voice, training even more solid reporters, and giving you the ad-free experience and lightning fast website you deserve.

Patriots will also be eligible for Patriots Only content, newsletters, chats and live events with our reporters and editors. It's simple: welcome us into your lives, and we'll welcome you into ours.

We can save America together.

Become a Daily Caller Patriot today.

Signature

Neil Patel