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A nudist beach at a quarry pond in the Czech Republic has achieved worldwide fame during the coronavirus pandemic, with even the US news channel CNN reporting a call by the local police to the nude bathers to wear face masks.

The law enforcement officers had posted their warning on the internet under the motto “Naked body yes, open mouth no.”

The appeal appears to have borne fruit, police spokeswoman Marketa Janovska confirmed on Tuesday to dpa.

Over the Easter weekend, a patrol at the gravel pit near the town of Lazne Bohdanec found no further violations of the emergency rules.

The background to the story is that in the Czech Republic wearing a mouth and nose cover has been compulsory in public since March 19 to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus. 

An exception has recently been made for athletes on their own such as joggers outdoors.

But the police spokeswoman made it clear: “Lying naked in the water is not what we consider to be doing sports.”

The spa town of Lazne Bohdanec is located almost 90 kilometres east of Prague in the middle of a landscape dotted by lagoons.

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