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06/29/2021
Some 120 cases of the Delta variant of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the Czech Republic to date, officials said on Tuesday. The cases have occurred in five of the country’s 13 regions, including Prague, according to a report from the National Reference Laboratory. A total of nearly 5,000 samples were sequenced. The so-called British variant of the coronavirus is still dominant in this country.
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06/29/2021
The Czech Olympic Committee has approved 100 nominees for the Czech team for the Olympic Games in Tokyo in a month’s time. However, the composition of the team may change once qualifications for the games have closed.
Athletes should make up the largest single group; 11 have already qualified and the Czech Olympic Committee expects another 16 to make the grade.
One-hundred and four Czechs took part in the last Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which was the lowest number since Melbourne in 1956.
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06/29/2021
Leaders of the South Moravia Region, which was devastated by a tornado on Thursday, have asked people to stop sending material aid to the affected communities. The regional governor, Jan Grolich, said on Tuesday that the municipalities now had sufficient food, water, clothing and other items.
Mr. Grolich said the mayors of the villages in the Hodonín and Břeclav districts only required building materials, of which there is a shortage.
The first train since the tornado ran between the towns of Hodonín and Břeclav on Tuesday morning.
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06/29/2021
Following a large-scale operation that saw helicopters circle over the city, police in Prague arrested a man on Tuesday afternoon in the connection with a shooting incident on Bělehradská St. The man is suspected of opening fire on a 50-year-old woman, who later died of her injuries, at an Office of Labour.
The man, who is 66, is also suspected of being behind an acid attack on another woman, a former colleague, in the Central Bohemia Region last week.
The police thanked the public and the media for their help in apphrending the man.
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06/29/2021
It should be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 23 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected in the following days, though temperatures will be lower.
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06/29/2021
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš says the coronavirus epidemic has not ended in the Czech Republic and that the trend in Prague is not looking positive. Speaking on Tuesday, Mr. Babiš said it was therefore necessary to carry on with the vaccination programme and to continue to adhere to measures aimed at curbing infections, particularly by new mutations from other countries.
The prime minister said that the cabinet would hold a special meeting on Thursday to discuss the Covid situation.
The number of recorded infections has begun climbing. The national average number of infections among 100,000 inhabitants stands at 6.8 over the last week; in Prague the figure is 19.
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06/29/2021
The much-anticipated biopic Zátopek will open this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in August, the organisers said on Tuesday. David Ondříček’s film about legendary Czech runner Emil Zátopek had been due for release in 2020 but was put back by a year due to the Covid situation.
A number of Czech works are in contention for Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe in the main competition, including Bird Atlas by Olmo Omerzu and Václav Kadrnka’s Saving One Who Was Dead.
A special section will feature a selection from Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation, which preserves classic movies.
Jan Němec’s classic A Report on the Party and the Guests is being screened in a freshly restored version.
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06/29/2021
An official representation of the Belarusian opposition will be established in Prague, the Czech government and President Miloš Zeman agreed at a meeting on Monday.
Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhánek (Social Democrats) said via Twitter that the representation should be set up in accord with the one in Lithuania, where Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has been living in exile since running against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Tsikhanouskaya had visited Prague in early June to meet some of the Czech Republic’s top officials and members of the large Belarusian exile community resident there.
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06/29/2021
Petra Kvitová, seeded No. 10, was eliminated in the first round of the Wimbledon tournament by the American Sloane Stephens (No. 73) in straight sets (6-3, 6-4).
The 31-year-old Czech, double winner of the London tournament in 2011 and 2014, is not having her best Grand Slam season. Kvitová withdrew from Roland-Garros due to an injury and was eliminated from the Australian Open in the second round.
Meanwhile, Jiří Veselý, the only Czech in the men’s table, qualified on Monday for the second round of Wimbledon by beating the German Yannick Hanfmann (6-1, 7-5, 7-6). Two Czech women, Karolína Plíšková and Tereza Martincová, are also still in the game, with matches on Tuesday.
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06/28/2021
Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Smolek has handed over a diplomatic note to the Russian ambassador to asserting the Kremlin’s international legal responsibility for the 2014 ammunition depot explosion in Vrbětice, Moravia demanding full compensation for the damage.
Several days earlier, a group of Czech parliamentarians led by the Minister of the Interior Jan Hamáček submitted a bill on one-off 700 million crown compensation for affected municipalities and residents for restrictions after the explosion.
Czech-Russian relations are at freezing point after the Czech Republic expelled dozens of Russian diplomats from the country earlier this year, saying that Russian agents had been behind deadly explosions on Czech territory in 2014.
Smolek also told the ambassador that the Czech Republic’s inclusion on Russia’s list of "not friendly" states constitutes a violation of international law. These include the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the Treaty on Friendly Relations and Cooperation.
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