Resolution No 33 / 2021 Coll.

Government with effect from 30 January 2021 from 00: 00 until 14 February 2021 until 23: 59

1. prohibits, for all health service providers, visits to health care facilities at workplaces where emergency bed care is provided, except:

- the presence of a third party at birth in a healthcare establishment under the conditions laid down in point 3,

- visiting minor patients,

- visits to patients with limited competence,

- visits to hospital and other patients in the terminal stage of incurable illness,

2. Limits patient visits to all health service providers in the workplaces where long-term or subsequent bed care is provided, so that the visit can only be granted on condition that the person visiting the patient undergoes a POC test for SARS CoV-2 antigen prior to the start of the visit; This requirement shall not apply to persons who have undergone a RT-PCR test or a POC test for the presence of SARS CoV-2 virus antigen at least 48 hours prior to the start of the visit, with negative results and proof of this, and to persons who have undergone COVID-19 disease within 90 days prior to the date of the visit and who will provide evidence of it; a person visiting a patient who meets any of the above conditions may make a visit provided that, during the visit, he / she uses personal respiratory protection devices, at least an FFP2 or KN95 class respirator without an exhaling valve [except for children under two years of age who may not have a respiratory protection device, and except for children between two and 15 years of age, if they have another respiratory protection device (nose, mouth) which prevents the spread of droplets] and while complying with the other regime measures of the provider,

3. prohibit, for all health service providers, the presence of a third party at birth in a health establishment where the following conditions are not met:

- the third person is the second parent of the child or of a person living with a common household parent,

- the birth will take place in a separate delivery room or box with its own bathroom,

- third-party contact with other parents will be restricted,

- the third person shall be subjected to temperature measurements before entering the delivery room or box,

- the third person has a body temperature below 37.0 ° C and has no symptoms of COVID-19,

- the third person uses the surgical mask as a minimum protection of the airway (the use of improvised or cloth is not sufficient),

4. for all providers of social services in the establishment of homes for seniors and homes with a special regime and for all relief social services in residence form (pursuant to § 44, 49 and 50 of Act No. 108 / 2006 Coll., on Social Services), the user's visits are limited so that the visit can be accepted only on condition that the person visiting the user is subjected to a POC test prior to the start of the POC test for the presence of SARS CoV-2 antigen, with a negative result; This requirement shall not apply to persons who have undergone a RT-PCR test or a POC test for the presence of SARS CoV-2 virus antigen at least 48 hours prior to the start of the visit, with negative results and proof of this, and to persons who have undergone COVID-19 disease within 90 days prior to the date of the visit and who will provide evidence of it; a person visiting a user who fulfils any of the above conditions may make a visit provided that, during the period of the visit, he uses personal respiratory protection devices, at least an FFP2 or KN95 class respirator without an exhaling valve (except for children under two years of age who may not have a respiratory protection device, and with the exception of children between two and 15 years of age, if they have another respiratory protection device (nose, mouth) which prevents the spread of droplets) and while complying with the other regime measures of the provider; in the case of user visits at the terminal stage of the incurable disease, the visit may be granted provided that the person visiting the user complies with the provider's regime measures;

5. Repeals the Government Resolution of 7 January 2021 No 14, published under No 11 / 2021 Coll., as amended by the Government Resolution of 22 January 2021 No 56, published under No 22 / 2021 Coll.