More Czech businesses and services hit by global IT services outage

Several more Czech businesses and services were hit by the global IT services outage on Friday. Most BENU pharmacies in the country were closed, and the online prescription service eRecept was also not working. Insurance company Allianz, one of the biggest in the country, announced that its call centre, online services and assistance service were all unavailable due to the outage.

The music festival Colours of Ostrava, currently taking place in the east Moravian capital, was also hit. The festival organisers announced that Iranian-Dutch singer Sevdaliza would not be performing on the main stage at her scheduled time of 8pm on Friday as her flight had been cancelled due to the outage. The festival said it was trying to make arrangements for the singer to get to Czechia so she could perform on Saturday instead.

Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan had written earlier in the day on social media site X that banking and healthcare systems in Czechia had not been affected.