This year’s census in the Czech Republic was overshadowed by a serious computer breakdown. Because of the pandemic, the questionnaire should preferably be filled out online. But right at the start today, the website with the form was not available. The reason is an „enormous burden on the system“, said the national statistics agency CSU.
Authority chief Marek Rojicek ruled out that it could be a cyber attack. How long the failure would last was not yet foreseeable. The opposition politician Marketa Pekarova-Adamova criticized on Twitter: “If an individual does not fulfill his duty, he receives a penalty. When the state fails, you just carry on as if nothing had happened. “
For all those who do not register online, counting officers should go from door to door from April 17th to May 11th to collect paper forms. The last census in the EU member state took place ten years ago.
