Pubs and restaurants across the Czech Republic opened in protest against the government's Covid-19 restrictions that have kept them closed since October.

Hundreds of venues have signed up to join the protest organised by the Chcipl pes (Dog is dead) movement, whose name refers to the government's anti-epidemic PES (DOG) system steering the restrictions.

“We have been disappointed with the government for a long time and we want to show that it had chosen the wrong way,” Jiri Janecek, manager at the Maly Janek brewery and restaurant in Jince southwest of Prague, told AFP.

“We've had enough and we think the ministers should consider quitting their posts,” added Janecek, co-founder of the movement.