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07/02/2021
Czechs will be obliged to undergo a test for the coronavirus when they return from other countries if they are not fully vaccinated, the minister of health, Adam Vojtěch, announced on Thursday. The move comes in response to a recent worsening in Covid numbers in the Czech Republic and fears of the spread of the more infectious Delta variant.
People who have recovered from Covid-19 within 180 days will also not be required to have a test when they come back from abroad.
Employers may not allow staff to return after a foreign trip if they do not produce a negative test.
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07/01/2021
The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, took possession of 100,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs, Peter Szijjarto, at the Czech National Vaccination Centre at Prague’s O2 Univesum venue on Thursday. The vaccines are a loan that the Czech Republic is committed to returning by the end of the year.
The Hungarian foreign policy chief had previously handed over nearly 41,000 doses of the vaccine to Mr. Babiš at the start of June.
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07/01/2021
The Czech online grocery delivery company Rohlik said on Thursday that it had raised EUR 100 million from investors. The firm’s valuation is now EUR 1 billion.
This round of investment comes only three months after Rohlik raised EUR 190 million from investors to expand into Germany. The company, founded by Tomáš Čupr, had already been active in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria.
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07/01/2021
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, has defended Domink Feri, who stepped down as an MP with the TOP 09 party after he was accused of sexual impropriety.
Mr. Zeman said he had the same view of the matter as ex-TOP 09 leader Karel Schwarzenberg, who said it had always been considered normal for a 25-year-old man to try to get girls into bed.
Media outlets carried testimonies from a number of women who said that Mr. Feri had had sex with them without their consent. Police are investigating the matter.
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07/01/2021
The living standard of Czech households is virtually the same as prior to the coronavirus pandemic, according to an index run by the STEM polling agency and financial advisory company KPMG.
While the country was hardest hit in terms of the epidemic in the first quarter of this year, assessments of household living standards have improved markedly on last year, the long-term study of household finances found.
By contrast, the perception of the Czech economic situation has deteriorated compared to in 2020.
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07/01/2021
The Covid reproduction number – the average number of people infected by one person with the virus – has climbed to 1.2 in the Czech Republic. This is its highest level since the end of February, at one of the worst periods since the coronavirus hit the country last year.
The reproduction number has been rising for five days in a row and on Wednesday breached 1:0, which signifies accelerated spread of the virus.
More positive tests are also being recorded, with the figures for Tuesday and Wednesday almost 50 percent higher than for the same days last week.
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07/01/2021
Czech fans have abandoned a plan to charter a plane to Baku in Azerbaijan to see the Czech Republic play Denmark in the quarter-finals of the European Football Championship on Saturday. The national team’s fan club said that in the end two few supporters were willing to go to Baku, despite around 300 having previously expressed interest.
The Czech Ministry of Health had called on fans to stay home, pointing out that it considers Azerbaijan as a very high risk state as regards Covid-19.
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07/01/2021
It should be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Friday, with an average high temperature of 20 degrees Celsius. Temperatures will climb over the following days, reaching the 30s Celsius by Wednesday.
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07/01/2021
Czech tourists arriving in Croatia now need to show a valid EU digital Covid certificate at the country’s border, the Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jakub Kulhánek, said on Thursday. Before this overnight decision by the Croatian authorities, Czechs were able to travel there without restriction in recent weeks.
However, previously agreed conditions still apply, said Mr. Kulhánek. This means Czechs may enter Croatia 22 days after a first dose of coronavirus vaccine, or if they can prove a negative Covid test or that they have had the virus.
Croatia has traditionally been an extremely popular destination for Czech holidaymakers.
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07/01/2021
At the grass tennis tournament in Wimbledon on Wednesday, four Czechs survived the first round in the women’s singles. They are Karolína Muchová, Kristýna Plíšková, Kateřina Siniaková and Markéta Vondroušová. Their compatriot Jiří Veselý also advanced to the second round.
For Plíšková, it was her first victory in a Grand Slam tournament after 11 defeats in a row. She beat Australian Astra Sharma in three sets with 3: 6, 6: 4 and 6: 4.
Barbora Krejčíková, Tereza Martincová and Karolína Plíšková had already reached the second round on Tuesday. Only Marie Bouzková and, surprisingly, the two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitová have been eliminated from the Czech side.
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