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06/06/2021
Work has begun in the Dutch municipality of Nieuwe Niedorp on the recovery of a Vickers Wellington IC T2990 bomber of the British Royal Air Force with a Czechoslovak crew shot down on June 23, 1941.
The crew members of the downed aircraft were Alois Rozum, Leonard Smrček, Vilém Konštatský, Jan Hejna, Karel Valach and Vilém Bufka, the sole survivor, who was captured and later died in captivity.
The Czech ambassador to The Neatherlands, Kateřina Sequensová, visited the site to speak to the mayor and the recovery team.
More than 5,500 airplanes were lost in the Netherlands during the Second World War. Thirty to fifty of these airplane wrecks are likely to contain remains in the ground. The National Airplane Recovery Program was launched in 2019.
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06/06/2021
Monday should be clear to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 22 and 27 degrees Celsius.
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06/06/2021
Scientists have successfully deployed a light drone with a newly developed unique computer system to fight invasive plants in the Czech Republic, the ctk news agency reported. The drone can locate larger areas covered by invasive plants which are forcing out native species and thus facilitates their elimination.
It appears that the new technology, developed by engineers from the Brno University of Technology and experts from the Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Prague, could serve for other purposes, for example to protect gorillas in the wild.
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06/06/2021
Around 100 people gathered on Prague's Wenceslas Square on Sunday to protest against the government-imposed restrictions aimed at bringing the Covid-19 epidemic under control. They called for an end to face masks in schools and indoor spaces, criticized plans to introduce Covid passes and rejected the government’s vaccination strategy as the main means of beating the epidemic. Police were out in force to maintain order and no incidents were reported.
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06/06/2021
Customs officers at Václav Havel Airport detained some 140 Czech tourists returning from Tunisia on Saturday because their Covid-19 tests were reportedly invalid. The tourists were all forced to undergo fresh tests at the airport before being allowed to go on their way.
The travel agency Blue Style has apologized to its clients and is demanding an explanation from the airport management. The agency claims that the tests were conducted by its doctor in Tunisia and were perfectly in order. It is the first such case reported since the start of the pandemic.
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06/06/2021
The government will start debating the draft state budget for 2022 at its session on Monday. The draft bill, presented by the Ministry of Finance, envisages a deficit of 390 billion crowns. The priorities outlined are cuts in spending in government institutions, investments to the tune of 189 billion crowns, a hike in pensions, freezing the salaries of civil servants and increasing the number of teachers and police officers.
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06/06/2021
A replica of a wooden church that was destroyed by arson after having stood for more than 450 years in the village of Třinec-Guty, near the border with Poland, first opened to the public on June 6.
Due to the coronavirus restrictions, the first mass celebrated in the church was attended by a limited number of believers but was broadcast live by Czech Television.
The wooden Corpus Christi church dating back to the year 1562 was one of the best preserved wooden churches in the country. It boasted priceless wood carved interiors and paintings dating back to the first half of the 16th century, which were completely destroyed by the blaze. The wooden replica and new pipe organ cost close to 30 million crowns.
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06/06/2021
The Ministry of Health is not planning to shorten the intervals between the first and second dose of Covid-19 vaccines to the original three or four weeks for the time being. Ministry of Health spokeswoman Gabriela Štěpanyová told Czech Radio that the question is still being debated.
Experts recently recommended going back to the original 3-week interval between vaccinations in order to ensure that as many people as possible are protected against the infection in view of the possible spread of the Indian mutation on Czech territory. Several weeks ago the government moved to extend the period between vaccinations to 42 days in order to increase the number of people with at least one shot.
The inoculation process against Covid-19 in the Czech Republic is gaining momentum. The number of people vaccinated in 24 hours crossed the 110,000 mark three times in the past week.
Four million people in the Czech Republic have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, 1.7 million people have received both doses.
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06/05/2021
Sunday should be clear to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 22 and 26 degrees Celsius.
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06/05/2021
World No. 33 Barbora Krejčíková reached the fourth round of the women's singles competition in Roland Garros after beating 5th seed Elina Svitolina in straight sets on Saturday. Svitolina lost 3-6, 6-2 in just an hour and 39 minutes at the Philippe Chattrier.
Krejčíková, who is in top form, won the WTA 250 clay court event in Strasbourg earlier this month. She will now face former finalist Sloane Stephens of the United States in the pre quarter-final.
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