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European Roma: Forgotten victims of COVID-19 European Roma: Forgotten victims of COVID-19 Health, education and economic measures imposed by EU Member States during the COVID crisis have largely failed to protect Roma communities by not taking into account their extreme poverty and by not giving them priority in public health and vaccination strategies. With 80% living in overcrowded settlements and dense neighbourhoods, often in households with no tap water and basic sanitations facilities and with reduced access to health services, Roma have paid a disproportionately heavy price during the ...

  Czech public health officials asking whether those testing positive for COVID-19 are Czech or Romani - but questions about nationality not being asked systematically 4.5.2021 8:54 (PHOTO: Flickr.com) A staffer with the Regional Public Health office in Písek, Czech Republic who was conducting an epidemiological investigation asked whether a girl who had tested positive for COVID-19 was Romani but did not explain why that question was important to him. Ms Lucie Rácová, a mother of three, was contacted by telephone more than once on 26 March by the Regional Public Health officce in Píse...

Vaccinations against COVID-19 - how is the Romani community in the Czech Republic responding? 26.1.2021 10:04 The vaccine against COVID-19 developed by Pfizer-BioNTech. (PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons, U.S. Secretary of Defense) Registration for vaccinations against COVID-19 in the Czech Republic began on Friday, 15 January for citizens 80 years of age or older and initially featured difficulties when the system was unable to keep up with the demand to register. According to data from the state team of what is being called the Smart Quarantine system, as of 13:00 on Monday, 18 January almost half...