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The Czech Republic is, according to billionaire and internet entrepreneur Jan Barta, at the forefront of Europe in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, but he proposes even more drastic measures. We decided to share his plan as it seems very reasonable to us as a measure also for the Slovak Republic. Judge for yourself …
He therefore informed the government and representatives of Prague, the most affected area, about his ten-day plan to fight COVID-19. “A ban on leaving the home controlled by the police is necessary, but then we will manage the epidemic and moreover we will not damage the economy,” says Jan Barta.
Jan Barta has already initiated the formation of a consortium of technology companies that offered the state and representatives of the most affected regions help with measures against the COVID-19 epidemic. Among other things this involves starting call centers for so-called tracing, i.e. tracking people who were in contact with infected individuals.
According to Barta, the Czech Republic is at the forefront of Europe in the fight against the coronavirus; thanks to proactive government measures it is, in his view, possible to halt the epidemic at around a thousand infected. At the same time, however, he says it is necessary to toughen measures even more in the next ten days.
“In Prague and in all towns where cases of sick patients are confirmed, and also in places to which tracing leads, it is necessary to order with immediate effect a ten-day ban on leaving the home except for grocery shopping, buying medicine and trips to the doctor. At the same time it is necessary for the same period to close offices, banks, workplaces and other establishments except those in which a sufficient distance between individual workers is ensured,” says Barta.
The second necessary step according to Barta is to supply respirators and masks as a priority to all doctors, pharmacists and cashiers and to order their mandatory wearing for ten days.
“To protect the highest-risk group of the population – pensioners – it is necessary to issue in the most affected towns and tracing locations an order that every day from 10:00 to 12:00 only pensioners have access to supermarkets and pharmacies, and at other times people of non-pension age. In those places it is also necessary to ban taxi and Uber rides for ten days,” explains Barta.
During these ten days, according to him, 95 percent of all people who are currently infected but not yet detected will be caught. These cases then need to be placed into home quarantine, which according to Barta would be supervised by the police, or into the infectious diseases ward of a hospital. “As soon as new cases of infection appear outside the cities or places under the strict regime, it is necessary to immediately introduce this ten-day measure there as well.”
“In a situation where we keep the borders closed (by the way, it is necessary to do a rapid blood antibody test for all logistics employees entering the Czech Republic) and at the same time it is guaranteed that one hundred percent of people returning to the Czech Republic will enter a fourteen-day quarantine, in two weeks the situation in the country will be completely under control,” explains Barta.
According to him, these measures are also the best for the economy. “Although in the area that makes up roughly a third of the Czech GDP we will stop life, it will be only temporarily for ten days. The economy will be able to restart all the faster. If the Czech Republic does not take these drastic measures, the country’s economy will be affected for another two to three months.”
“I am convinced that this proposal of mine is the best for the economy in terms of cost-benefit. In three weeks all bars and restaurants may be open again, we will even be able to let the league and the extraleague finish their seasons. We will just have to wait another two to three months before we fully open the borders.”
Billionaire Jan Barta is an entrepreneur and investor, co-owner of the investment group Pale Fire Capital, which also includes the publisher Extra Online Media.
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