The death of Czech singer Hana Horka has sparked widespread backlash at home and abroad after her family denounced anti-vaccine activists, who allegedly influenced and persuaded her to catch Covid-19 in order to get your health pass rather than get vaccinated.
With our correspondent in Prague, Alexis Rosenzweig
Her name was not known to everyone in the Czech Republic, but now few have heard the story of Hana Horka, folk singer who died at 57 on Sunday after catching Covid-19. Unvaccinated, she boasted two days before on the social networks to finally be able to hope to go to the theater, the sauna and the concert thanks to the disease, which would validate his health pass – an essential sesame in the country for all cultural and sports places and in bars and restaurants.
” She preferred to be infected than to be vaccinated »
” She preferred to be infected than to be vaccinated “, laments his son on the site of the national radio, which criticizes certain personalities of the cultural world for their anti-vaccine speech, which, according to him, convinced Hana Horka. Among these personalities are other musicians, actors and even former sportsmen, who according to the singer’s son ” have blood on their hands “because of their” talk about natural immunity and the antibodies created by catching the disease “.
New epidemic wave
The Czech Republic is currently experiencing a new epidemic wave with more than 20,000 new cases per day. This Wednesday, January 19, the new government must confirm whether or not vaccination will be compulsory for seniors and in certain professions.
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