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08/07/2021
The Czech Republic has taken two more medals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo after a sensational final in the men’s javelin event on Saturday.
Jakub Vadlejch won the silver medal with a throw of 87.58 metres, while his teammate Vítězslav Veselý took the bronze with 85.44, both of them achieving their best result of the season.
The gold medal went to India’s Neeraj Chopra, who won the first Athletics medal for his country since 1900. The gold medal favourite, Johannes Vetter of Gemrnay, finished in the ninth spot.
The Czech team now has a total of eleven medals, four of them gold, which is the best result at the summer Olympics in the history of the independent Czech Republic.
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08/07/2021
Meteorologists have issued a severe storm warning for most parts of the Czech Republic from Saturday afternoon throughout the night, which can be accompanied by torrential rain, hail and gusts of wind of up to 90 kilometres per hour.
The belt of rain will gradually move from the southwest to the north of the country. Some areas, especially Prague, Central Bohemia and Liberec could see up to 50 mm of rainfall, which could affect local streams and lead to local flooding. The warning includes a call for people to secure their windows and garden furniture.
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08/07/2021
Dozens of buildings, from historical sights to state-of-the art office spaces, open to the public on Saturday within the seventh edition of the Open House Prague festival.
The event, which this year commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the renownedCzech architect Jan Kotěra, invites visitors to look around 80 buildings all around Prague, which are otherwise inaccessible to the public.
These include, for example, the Laichter House in Vinohrady, Trmal Villa in Strašnice, and Vršovice Waterworks in Michle, desiged by Jan Kotěra. Visitors can also take a look inside the delapidating City Spa in Žižkov, which used to be the biggest and most modern spa in the city.
Open House Prague is part of the Open House Worldwide international network of festivals, which take place in dozens of cities around the world.
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08/07/2021
The Czech Republic is sending a special contingent of firefighters to Greece, which has been struggling with extensive forest fires that have been exacerbated by a record heatwave affecting southern Europe.
A total of 15 fire engines with crew of 36 firefighters are due to leave the country onSaturday. Their departure was arranged on Friday by Interior Minister Jan Hamáček and the head of Czech diplomacy Jakub Kulhánek.
Two people have been reported dead amid the uncontrolled wildfires near Athens and thousands more have had to flee their homes. Earlier in the week, the Czech Republic sentsimilar aid to Albania, which has also been hit by extensive forest fires.
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08/06/2021
The Chamber of Deputies voted in favour of a proposal that sets a minimum age limit for children who are placed into institutional care on Friday, de-facto ending the use of infant care centres (kojenecké ústavy). If the legislation proposal also passes through the upper-house, it will mean that it will not be possible to place children under the age of three into institutional care from January 1, 2025.
The author of the proposal, Deputy Olga Richterová from the Pirate Party, said that the Czech Republic is the last EU state where infant care centres, which she likened to orphanages for children younger than three-years-old, still exist. The aim of the legislation, she says, is to ensure that unwanted children below the age of three are placed into foster families.
The proposal was mainly opposed by Communist Party MPs, some of whom said that infant care centres are sometimes the only place where such children can be placed.
The lower-house also voted in favour of raising state subsidies for foster parents, which will be dependent on the minimum wage and on the number of children they are taking care of.
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08/06/2021
61 percent of people living in the Czech Republic are satisfied with the country’s health system, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) from May to June of this year. This is an increase of 17 percent when compared with the results of the last survey, which was conducted in 2019. A tenth of respondents said that they are not satisfied. Meanwhile, roughly a quarter said that they are neither happy nor unhappy with the current state of the Czech health system.
According to the authors of the survey, this year’s results show the highest number of satisfied people ever since the question was first put to respondents in 2002.
Roughly two-thirds of respondents listed insufficient numbers of nurses and doctors as the top two most pressing problems currently faced by the country’s health system.
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08/06/2021
Serbian director and screenwriter Goran Marković will receive this year’s annual award of the Association of Czech Film Clubs (AČFK), the Czech News Agency reported on Friday. Slovak actor Martin Huba as well as Czech actors Jiřina Bohdalová and Zdeněk Svěrák will also be awarded accolades at the ongoing Summer Film School (LFŠ) in Uherské Hradiště.
Goran Marković studied at the prestigious Prague film school FAMU during the 1960s. He has since directed approximately 50 documentaries, 13 feature films, and 3 theatre plays. Summer Film School director Radana Korená told the Czech News Agency that Marković will also be receiving the award for his long-term contributions to conveying life in Serbia and his views on the world.
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08/06/2021
Saturday should see temperatures range around 26 degrees Celsius with open or partly overcast skies.
Meteorologists warn that powerful storms may occur in the central parts of the country on Saturday night, with winds reaching speeds of up to 75km/h and 40mm of rainfall.
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08/06/2021
The Czech Railway Administration (Správa železnic) has replaced all 109 railway tiles in the area of Wednesday’s railway accident near Milavče, which left three people dead and dozens injured. The single track, which connects Prague with Munich, should be fully repaired and functional around 6pm on Friday, according to Správa železnic.
The railway section was damaged on Wednesday, when an express train traveling from Munich hit a regional passenger train. German railway organisations have since voiced criticism about the safety of Czech Railways. The honorary chairman of the German passenger association PRO BAHN, Karl-Peter Naumann, called for the Czech signalling system to be urgently revised.
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08/06/2021
Thursday saw the total number of fully vaccinated Czechs exceed 5 million, nearly 47 percent of the total population, according to data from the Czech Health Ministry. In total, 10.6 million jabs have been applied since vaccinations against the COVID-19 coronavirus began in the Czech Republic in December 2020. However, daily vaccination rates fell in week-on-week terms.
The highest number of total administered vaccines has been registered in Prague, where 1.9 million doses have been applied so far. South-Moravia, Central Bohemia and the Moravian-Silesian Region also registered over a million jabs. The lowest vaccination rate is in the sparsely populated Karlovy Vary Region – 283,000 doses.
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