and self-quarantine for 14 days. exemptions: (1) truck drivers that use ffp2 or ffp3 respirators while out of the vehicle in italy, (2) ambulance crews under specific conditions and (3) pilots that did not leave their aeroplane while in italy. 7 march 2020 from 7 march onwards (indefinitely). replaced by other measures (see below). formally revoked on 17 april 2020. measure replaced a similar one that was issued a day earlier, which did not include any exemptions. up to czk 3 million fine for breach of self-quarantine. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 10381/2020-1/min/kan ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 10381/2020-2/min/kan (revocation) anyone who visited one of the selected countries over the past 14 days subject to mandatory self-quarantine of 14 days. list of countries may be updated daily. anyone crossing borders into the czech republic must allow authorities to perform a medical check. 10 march 2020 from 10 march onwards (indefinitely). up to czk 3 million (about €120,000) fine for breach of self-quarantine. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 10653/201-1/min/kan all residents of the czech republic (citizens and non-citizens) who return from selected countries. list of selected countries subject to daily updates, as of the day of measure adoption they are: china, south korea, iran, italy, spain, austria, germany, switzerland, sweden, norway, the netherlands, belgium, great britain, denmark, and france. freight drivers exempted and recommended to "limit contact with locals as far as feasible". 13 march 2020 from 13 march onwards (indefinitely). replaced from 14 april onwards. exemptions: international freight transport: drivers, flight crews, train crews, ship crews. also exempt are freight transport workers employed abroad. diplomatic staff. emergency services while on duty (police, emt, fire, mountain rescue, etc.). persons who verifiably periodically cross borders, especially workers with a place of employment no further than 100 kilometres from the border. citizens of germany, austria, poland and slovakia who verifiably periodically cross borders, especially workers with a place of employment no further than 100 kilometres from the border. epidemiology, humanitarian and health experts. members of the european parliament. minors that are citizens of an eu member state and whose parent is a czech citizen. persons transporting blood, bone marrow and/or organs for purpose of transplantation. persons with a serious medical condition for purpose of undertaking medical procedures abroad. persons who merely used airport transit zones within selected countries. up to czk 3 million (about €120,000) fine for breach of self-quarantine. government resolution no. 209/2020 coll. ministry of interior notice on exemptions from travel restrictions during the state of emergency anyone entering the czech republic has duty to contact health authority and may be subject to mandatory 14 days' quarantine (with exemptions). 6 april 2020 from 14 april until the end of the state of emergency. extended on 15 may (indefinitely). exemptions – see referenced government resolution. significant change in rules from 27 april onwards—see border restrictions below. government resolution no. 387 published as no. 150/2020 coll. government resolution no. 443 published as no. 193/2020 coll. (revocation) ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 20599/2020-1/min/kan contact tracing confirmed covid-19 patients' contacts preventively quarantined for 14 days. 7 march 2020 from 8 march onwards (indefinitely). authorities actively seek all people who were in contact with confirmed covid-19 patients. those are then ordered to mandatory 14 days' preventive self-quarantine. they also get tested for covid-19, typically after 5 days. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 10386/2020-1/min/kan use of mobile phone geolocation data and debit card payments for contact tracing 19 march 2020 from 19 march onwards (indefinitely). mobile phone operators and banks obliged to provide geolocation data to health authority, if so requested. data must be provided subject to following conditions (cumulative): only geolocation data of covid-19 positive person, only subject to such person's explicit consent which may be taken back at any time, geolocation data for previous three weeks, data may be used only for purpose of epidemiological tracing, health authority may store the original data only for necessary period of time, no more than 6 hours. geolocation data is used to draft a map of covid-19 person's movement in previous days. this map is then presented to the person to help them remember who they were in contact with, where and when. identified contacts are then put into 14 days' quarantine and tested for covid-19 after 5 days. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 12398/2020-1/min/kan soldiers deployed to reinforce health authority. 30 march 2020 from 30 march 2020 onwards (indefinitely). 300 soldiers (mainly paramedics and students of military university of medicine) deployed to reinforce health authority for the purpose of tracing contacts of covid-19 positive patients and for collecting their samples. government resolution no. 333 published as no. 141/2020 coll. special requirements for release from preventive quarantine. 9 april 2020 from 16 april 2020 onwards (indefinitely). people who were put into quarantine due to previous contact with covid-19 positive person may be released from quarantine only if (cumulatively): 14 days elapsed, lack of covid-19 symptoms, unless those can be attributed to other illness, negative outcome of rapid test on covid-19 antibodies, negative outcome of test for igm and igg antibodies. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 15757/2020-6/min/kan hospital visits ban. ban on visits in hospitals and similar facilities. exemptions for visits to patients who are (1) minors, (2) legally incapacitated, (3) pregnant or (4) terminally ill. 9 march 2020 from 10 march onwards (indefinitely). exemptions for visits to patients who are (1) minors, (2) legally incapacitated, (3) pregnant or (4) terminally ill. scope of exemptions extended on from 16 april onwards: presence of father during child delivery explicitly allowed. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 10519/2020-1/min/kan ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 16214/2020-1/min/kan public gatherings banned. gatherings of 100 or more people banned. 10 march 2020 from 10 march 6 pm onwards (indefinitely). replaced by other measures (see below). formally revoked on 17 april 2020. ban on private and public gatherings of 100 or more people, including theatres, music events, cinemas, sports, etc. exemptions for (1) legislature, (2) executive government, (3) courts and (4) public or private assemblies mandated by law (e.g. shareholder meetings) ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 10666/2020-1/min/kan ministry of health protection measure no.mzdr 10666/2020-2/min/kan (revocation) gatherings of 30 or more people banned. 12 march 2020 from 13 march 6 pm onwards (indefinitely). revoked from 16 march onwards (replaced by nationwide curfew, see below). ban on any private and public gatherings of 30 or more people. exemptions for (1) legislature, (2) executive government, (3) courts, (4) public assemblies mandated by law and (5) funerals. government resolution no. 199/2020 coll. gatherings of more than 2 people banned. 23 march 2020 from 23 march until 1 april. extended until 11 april. extended until end of state of emergency. invalidated from 27 april onwards. ban on any gathering at the publicly accessible place of more than 2 people. exemptions for (1) members of same household, (2) exercise of profession and (3) funerals as long as a distance of 2 metres between people is kept. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 12745/2020-1/min/kan ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 12745/2020-4/min/kan ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 15190/2020-5/min/kan judgement of the municipal court in prague no. 14 a 41/2020 from 23 april 2020 gatherings of more than 10 people banned. 23 april 2020 from 24 april until the end of state of emergency. ban on any gathering at the publicly accessible place of more than 10 people. exemptions for (1) members of same household, (2) exercise of profession, (3) funerals as long as a distance of 2 metres between people is kept, (4) church services up to 15 persons. special requirements for training of professional athletes, weddings, church services, etc. exemptions extended from 11 may onwards: theatres, cinemas, concerts, church services, weddings etc. with attendance of max. 100 people mass sport events of max. 100 people (2 metres' distance between individuals, no use of common showers, locker rooms, etc.) government resolution no. 452 published as no. 194/2020 coll. government resolution no. 490 published as 223/2000 coll. 15 may 2020 from 18 may until 25 may. ban on any gathering at the publicly accessible place of more than 10 people with exemptions (family members, exercise of profession, etc.). ban on public events (sport, culture, wedding, praying, etc.) with more than 100 people. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 20588/2020-1/min/kan gatherings of 300 or more people banned. 19 may 2020 from 25 may onwards (indefinitely). ban on any private gathering/public event (sport, cultural, wedding, prayer, etc.) of 300 or more people. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 20588/2020-2/min/kan schools suspended. all pupils and students banned from personally attending classes (including university lectures). staff may continue to work and assign homework for students. kindergartens and creches are open/closed subject to decision of local municipal authorities. 10 march 2020 from 11 march onwards (indefinitely). from 13 march onwards ban extended to include also extracurricular and after school activities. from 20 april onwards students may attend university exams with max. 5 persons present, may also attend clinical education or practical laboratory education with max. 5 persons present. exemption extended from 11 may onwards: students in final year of grammar or high school as long as there are no more than 15 students in a classroom students in orphanages and similar institutions education at healthcare oriented schools extracullicural activities as long as student group is no larger than 15 persons university education as long as student group is no larger than 15 persons (clinical education unlimited) education at art and language schools as long as student group is no larger than 15 persons – all of that only after student/parent signs a sworn statement that the student is without clinical symptoms of covid-19. exemption extended from 25 may onwards: pupils at grammar schools grades 1–5, max. 15 pupils at a class, attendance is voluntary. special needs schools/classes remain closed. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 10676/2020-1/min/kan (11–13 march 2020) government resolution no. 201/2020 coll. (from 13 march onwards) ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 16184/2020-1/min/kan government resolution no. 455 published as no. 197/2020 coll. government resolution no. 456 published as no. 198/2020 coll. government resolution no. 491 published as no. 220/2020 coll. ministry of health protections measure no. mzdr 20584/2020-1/min/kan ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 20584/2020-2/min/kan closure of services restaurants closed. 12 march 2020 from 13 march 8 pm onwards (indefinitely) / replaced on 14 march. restaurants may operate from 6 am to 8 pm. home delivery possible 24/7. government resolution no. 199/2020 coll. 12 march 2020 from 13 march 8 pm until 24 march 6 am. extended to 1 april. extended to 11 april. restaurants in shopping centres over 5,000 m2 in size closed. government resolution no. 199/2020 coll. (until 14 march) government resolution no. 211/2020 coll. (after 14 march) ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 13361/2020-2/min/kan 14 march 2020 from 14 march 6 am until 24 march 6 am. extended to 1 april. extended to 11 april. replaced on 6 april (valid indefinitely) all publicly accessible restaurants closed. restaurants may sell food through shopfront windows with any opening hours (incl. 24/7), so long as customers do not enter the premises. home delivery possible 24/7. from 11 may: restaurants may serve patrons at their outdoors premises. from 25 may: restaurants may operate from 6 am to 23 pm (outdoor premises, take away windows and home delivery 24/7). government resolution no. 211/2020 coll. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 12746/2020-1/min/kan ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 13361/2020-2/min/kan ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 15190/2020-3/min/kan government resolution no. 493 published as no. 224/2020 coll. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 20581/2020-1/min/kan ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 20581/2020-2/min/kan marketplaces closed ban on retail trade at marketplaces. 13 march 2020 from 14 march 6 am onwards (indefinitely). partially revoked on 20 april 2020 (outdoors marketplaces can reopen). revoked from 11 may onwards. while having a general effect, the resolution also specifically names little hanoi. government resolution no. 208/2020 coll. ministry of health protection measure no. mzdr 16193/2020-1/min/kan government resolution no. 453 published as no. 195/2020 coll. government resolution no. 493 published as no. 224/2020 coll. general closure of services and retail sale (all retail may still