ROB CAMERON

BBC Prague Correspondent

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Covid-19: How the Czech Republic's response went wrong

BBC News

2020-10-26

Initially praised for its Covid response – including a cottage industry sewing hundreds of thousands of homemade face masks – by autumn 2020 the Czech Republic had some of the worst infection and mortality statistics in the world. In November, the Czech Army was called in to transform an exhibition grounds on the northern outskirts of Prague into a field hospital.