Covid-positive Czech president swears in new prime minister from within transparent isolation box
Czech President Milos Zeman, who tested positive for the coronavirus and was just released from the hospital, swore in the country’s new prime minister from within a transparent cubicle.
Zeman, who was brought in on a wheelchair by a person wearing a protective suit, spoke Sunday from behind the panel at the Lany Chateau outside Prague to task center-right leader Petr Fiala, a former education minister, with forming the next government.
The president, who must isolate since his positive test, attended the small ceremony broadcast on television after a hospital in the capital discharged him over the weekend. He had just spent more than a month at the hospital for an unspecified illness when his office said he tested positive last week and he went back in for a few days. He was taken to a hospital in October, hours after the party of his political ally, billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis, was narrowly defeated in the country’s general election by an opposition alliance.
In the wake of Zeman’s admission to an intensive care unit, Czech police opened an investigation last month into a “crime against the republic” after a Senate report accused senior aides of the president of concealing that he was too ill to work.
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