• Vaccinations without registration to begin in mid-July
    06/20/2021

    The Czech Ministry of Health plans to launch a system under which it will be possible to get vaccinated against Covid-19 without registering in advance. The system should be in place from the middle of July, the minister of health, Adam Vojtěch, said on Czech Television on Sunday, adding that it should attract more people to get the jab.

    Mr. Vojtěch also said that his officials were working to ensure that vaccinations conducted in the United States and other countries outside the European Union were recognised in the Czech Republic from the beginning of the summer holidays.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Memorial held to victims of Ležáky atrocity
    06/20/2021

    The burning to the ground of the village of Ležáky in East Bohemia and the murder of its population was remembered on Sunday at the place where it once stood. The memorial was closed to the public but saw Finance Minister Alena Schillerová, Arts Minister Lubomír Zaorálek and other dignitaries lay wreaths at a monument to the victims.

    The atrocity, which took place on 24 June 1942, came in retaliation for the killing of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich and followed the similar destruction of Lidice near Prague. When the Gestapo discovered that the parachutists sent to assassinate Heydrich kept a radio transmitter in Ležáky they murdered 51 of its residents.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Over 2.5 million in CR now fully vaccinated against Covid
    06/20/2021

    Over 2.5 million people have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in the Czech Republic, which has a population of 10.7 million. Around 4.7 million people in the country have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, representing 44 percent of the total populace.

    Experts say the level of vaccination is the main reason infections with the virus have fallen markedly. On Saturday only 63 new cases of Covid were recorded in the country, while the number hospitalised has fallen to 73.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Weather forecast
    06/20/2021

    It will be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Monday, with an average high temperature of 30 degrees Celsius. Temperatures should fall to the low 20s Celsius in the latter part of the new week.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czechs marrying at later age
    06/20/2021

    Brides are getting older in the Czech Republic, with the average age of first marriage for women passing the 30-year mark for the first time last year, Novinky.cz reported. In 1961 women were wed for the first time at 22, on average, though that number started rising following the end of the Communist period.

    Among men the average age in 1989 was 25; last year it had risen to 33.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Award for Pavlátová’s My Sunny Maad at Annecy
    06/20/2021

    My Sunny Maad by the Czech director Michaela Pavlátová received the Jury Prize at the Annecy Festival, which is focused on animated films, in France. It was the first time a Czech-made film had been in the main competition at Annecy for nearly 30 years.

    The feature-length film is about a Czech woman who falls in love with an Afghan but has no idea what awaits her in a post-Taliban Afghanistan.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Eighty percent of Czech firms want end to work from home
    06/20/2021

    Most Czech companies want their staff to return to their workplaces and do away with work from home practices, suggests a survey of 700 employers cited by Czech Television. Many firms believe that their employees are less productive at home and losing good working habits.

    Eighty percent of companies surveyed said that were bringing their people back to their places of work. Fourteen percent said they would allow combined workplace and “home office” and just two percent said they would prefer mainly work from home.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Kulhánek outlines plans for Czech presidency of EU in 2022
    06/19/2021

    The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jakub Kulhánek, has laid out the country’s plans for its presidency of the European Union in 2022. Mr. Kulhánek told Czech President Miloš Zeman at talks at his Lány residence on Saturday that the Prague government wished to host an EU summit with countries from the Western Balkans, as well as an EU-United States summit.

    The foreign policy chief said this reflected the priorities of the Czech presidency – planned for the second half of next year – which were transatlantic ties and Western Balkans states’ preparations for EU accession.

    Mr. Kulhánek said that in the nearer term the Czech Republic supported sanctions against the Lukashenko regime in Belarus.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Weather forecast
    06/19/2021

    It should be largely overcast in the Czech Republic with an average high temperature of 31 degrees Celsius. The heat wave should begin to abate early next week.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Third person dies after toxic chemicals leak
    06/19/2021

    A third person has died following a leak of toxic materials in Plzeň on Friday, a representative of the city’s university hospital said on Saturday. Another person who was taken to hospital in a serious condition is reported to now be doing better.

    The chemicals leaked in the grounds of a company focused on the treatment of liquid industrial sludge. The police are investigating the matter on suspicion of criminal negligence.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

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