Roman Prymula (born 4 February 1964) is a

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physician, professor of

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, and a retired army colonel. During the early stages of the

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, he served as the head of the Czech government's Central Crisis Board () and then as a government agent for science and research. On 21 September 2020 he was named as Minister of Health of the Czech Republic by Prime Minister

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following the resignation of

Adam Vojtěch Adam Vojtěch (born 2 October 1986) is a Czech politician and lawyer who served as Minister of Health from 13 December 2017 to 21 September 2020, in both the first and second cabinets of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, and then for a second time fr ...

. On 21 October 2020, the tabloid

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published photographs of Prymula and

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leaving a restaurant late at night in apparent breach of COVID-19 regulations, under which all restaurants were supposed to be closed. He was replaced by

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on 29 October.

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