Czech folk singer dies after intentionally catching COVID-19
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Hana Horká voluntarily spent time with her infected husband and son in an effort to catch COVID-19.
A Czech folk singer has died after she intentionally contracted COVID-19 in an effort to allow herself more freedom.
Hana Horká, 57, was the vocalist for the band Asonance. She refused to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Instead, reports The Guardian, she voluntarily exposed herself to her vaccinated husband and son, who both caught the virus before Christmas.
“She decided to continue to live normally with us and preferred to catch the disease than to get vaccinated,” her son, Jan Rek, told public radio iRozhlas.cz this week.
The Czech Republic requires proof of vaccination or recent infection to enter many venues, including those where Horká’s band performed.
Her son said she thought that getting infected would allow her to be back performing with her band, and allow her more freedom to move around in society.
According to the BBC, two days before her death she posted on social media that she had picked up the virus but was recovering.
“Now there will be theatre, sauna, a concert… and an urgent trip to the sea,” she wrote.