Czech President Zeman Returns to Hospital After Positive COVID-19 Test

Czech President Zeman Returns to Hospital After Positive COVID-19 Test
Czech President Milos Zeman gestures in Vienna, Austria, on April 3, 2019. Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
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PRAGUE—Czech President Milos Zeman was taken back to hospital on Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus, his office said, just hours after his release following more than six weeks of treatment for an unrelated condition.

Zeman, 77, was released to home care on Thursday morning but an ambulance took him back to the Central Military Hospital (UVN) in the evening after testing positive at the presidential retreat at Lany, west of Prague.