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06/10/2021
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of several settlements from the period of agricultural prehistory along the future route of a motorways bypass in Doudleb nad Orlicí, in the Rychnov region.
The discovery of the settlement, where sacrifices likely took place, is said to be the most remarkable. It should be the first discovery of its kind in Eastern Bohemia and among the first in the country, University of Hradec Králové and Rychnov Museum archaeologists told ČTK.
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06/10/2021
Last year, the number of people in the Czech Republic who often drank alcohol increased by 2.4 percentage points, according to research by the State Institute of Public Health (SZÚ). Experts believe the increase is related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
One out of five respondents said they drank daily or several times a week in 2020. Estimated average annual consumption also rose significantly, to 8 litres of alcohol, an increase of 0.3 litres. Consumption per capita was the highest in three years.
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06/10/2021
The annual international ranking of universities carried out by the British company Quacquarelli Symonds saw almost all Czech higher education institutions drop their scores this year.
As in previous years, Charles University in Prague placed highest nationally, but it dropped from 260th to 266th place.
Among the top 500 universities in the world were also the Higher Chemical-Technical School (VŠCHT) and the Czech Technical University (ČVUT), the only one to improve its position, going 432nd to 403rd place, the best achieved to date.
The rankings are based on six criteria: reputation among other universities and employers, citations of authors, internationalization of academia, numbers of foreign students, and average number of students per teacher.
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06/10/2021
Friday should be mostly cloudy throughout the day, with isolated rain and thunderstorms, but skies clearing in the evening. Average highs of 22 and 26 degrees Celsius are forecast.
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06/10/2021
Foreigners without Czech public health insurance can begin registering for a Covid vaccine as of Friday. They will receive Pfizer/BioNTech jabs at designated centres, not via doctors’ surgeries, at a cost of up to 850 crowns.
According to Interior Ministry statistics, as of the end of March, more than 656,000 foreigners were living in the Czech Republic, the majority of whom have permanent residency.
The government included foreigners without permanent residence in the vaccination system following complaints to the Ministry of Health and criticism by Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hříb. To register, it will be necessary to provide an email address and phone number.
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06/10/2021
Several climate activists occupied two excavators in the northern Bohemia open-cast coal mines of Bílina and Nástup-Tušimice on Thursday morning, to protest the government’s timeline for switching to greener energy.
The mines operator, Severočeské doly, said work done by the excavators had to be stopped because of the protest. Police are on site and are monitoring the situation, the press agency ČTK reports.
The Czech Republic has committed to ending coal mining in a bid to lower greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030 versus 1990 levels, and to net-zero by 2050, in line with the European Green Deal policy framework.
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06/10/2021
The Health Ministry has issued a recommendation that the AstraZeneca and Johnson&Johnson coronavirus vaccines only be given to over 60-year-olds, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday.
In its decision, the Health Ministry followed earlier recommendations from the Czech Vaccinology Association and the State Drug Control Agency. The move also follows similar age restrictions issued by other EU member states.
The recommendation does not apply to those individuals younger than 60 who have already received one dose of either AstraZeneca or Johnson&Johnson. These will be inoculated with the same vaccine in their second dose.
The reason for the age limitation of these two vaccines is the very rare side effect of thrombocytopenia syndrome, in which blood clots form mainly in the brain. According to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the incidence of such blood clots occuring is estimated at 0.01 percent of those vaccinated, mostly at a younger age.
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06/09/2021
Actress Libuše Šafránková has died at the age of 68, CNN Prima News reported on Wednesday afternoon, citing her son Josef Abrhám. Šafránková had undertaken an operation at the General Faculty Hospital in Prague on June 7, the date of her birthday, news site Blesk.cz reports.
Libuše Šafránková played in several of films, television series and theatre plays during her career. Her breakthrough came in the 1973 movie “Three Nuts for Cinderella” (Tři oříšky pro Popelku), where she portrayed the main heroine of the iconic fairy-tale film that has kept its place in Czech popular memory for nearly 50 years.
Considered one of Czechia’s most beautiful actresses, Šafránková also acted in internationally acclaimed movies, such as the 1996 Oscar winner for best foreign language film “Kolya”, as well as “The Elementary School” (Obecná škola), which received an Oscar nomination in the same category.
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06/09/2021
Barbora Krejčíková has reached the semi-finals of Roland Garros clay Grand Slam for the first time in her career after beating 17-year-old American Cori Gauff. The first set of the game was tightly contested, with Gauff holding altogether five set points. However, the Czech tennis player managed to hold out, eventually winning the first set 7:6 and going on to win the second set 6:3.
Krejčíková will face the winner of the quarter final game between Poland’s Iga Świątek and Greece’s Maria Sakkari. Meanwhile, Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Slovenia’s Tamara Zidanšek will face each other in the parallel semi-final game on Thursday.
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06/09/2021
Temperatures are set to range around 25 degrees Celsius on Thursday, with rainfall expected across much of Bohemia and Moravia. Skies over Silesia will likely be overcast.
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