PRAGUE, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Czech epidemiologist Roman Prymula was appointed on Monday as the country's new minister of health, according to the office of President Milos Zeman.
Prymula, government healthcare research commissioner and a former deputy health minister, is to replace Health Minister Adam Vojtech, who resigned Monday morning to "create space for a solution" to the country's spiraling COVID-19 caseload. Vojtech had faced pressure from the opposition to resign over his management of the epidemiological situation in the country.