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06/01/2021
The Czech GDP decreased by 0.3% quarter-on-quarter in the first quarter of 2021, the Czech Statistics Office reported. In a year-on-year comparison, it decreased by 2.1%. The negative year-on-year GDP development was caused by a decrease in the final consumption of households and in the gross fixed capital formation. The Czech economy shrank both in the year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter comparison. The gross domestic product adjusted for price effects and seasonally adjusted was by 0.3% lower, quarter-on-quarter. In the year-on-year comparison, the GDP decreased by 2.1%.
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06/01/2021
As of June 1st, Czechs can avail themselves of four antigen tests and two PCR tests a month for free, according to new regulations approved by the cabinet. Up until now antigen tests were covered by insurance once in three days, PCR tests had to be paid for, unless they were ordered by a GP or hygiene officer.
The new regulation comes into force in connection with the reopening of sports and cultural venues most of which will require people to produce a negative test, vaccination certificate or certificate of post-Covid immunity. Antigen tests are valid for 72 hours, PC tests for a week.
The government is yet to decide on testing during the summer holidays. According to Chief Hygiene Officer Pavla Svrčinová Czechs may be allowed two antigen and two PCR tests for free during the summer months.
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06/01/2021
As of June 1, people will be able to download certificates of negative Covid tests, previous infection, and vaccination from the webpage of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics (Ocko.UZIS.cz.) , Health Minister Adam Vojtěch told journalists. The certificates will be recognized in seven countries - Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia –within bilateral agreements signed by the government.
Travellers have been warned that individual countries are now setting their own rules for the validity of a negative test and the required interval after the first or second Covid vaccine dose, which may differ in vaccines from various manufacturers.
According to the Ministry of Health the vaccination registration system should open to foreigners without public insurance from the beginning of June.
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06/01/2021
The minority government of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’ ANO party and the Social Democrats will face a vote of no-confidence in the lower house on Thursday. The motion will be tabled by the opposition centre-right parties and the outcome will depend on the vote of the Communist Party, which has been increasingly critical of the government’s performance in office. The party will meet to decide its strategy on the eve of the vote but there are indications it may support the motion.
The centre right opposition parties accuse the government of mishandling the Covid epidemic, the diplomatic row with Russia over the 2014 Vrbětice blasts and of squandering public funds. Moreover the police announced this week that they had concluded a six-year criminal investigation into whether Mr Babiš illegally acquired 2 million euros in EU subsidies through fraud and proposed filing charges against the prime minister and his former advisor, Jana Mayerová.
During a meeting with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on Monday evening, President Miloš Zeman reiterated his support for the minority cabinet, making it clear that if it lost the no-confidence vote he would allow it to rule in demise until October’s general elections.
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06/01/2021
Oxford University academic and leading nuclear scientist Jiřina Stone spent years handing over nuclear intelligence in clandestine meetings with spies from her native Czechoslovakia after emigrating to Britain in the mid-1980s, the Daily Mail reports.
According to a dossier of newly declassified files from the Security Services archive in Prague, “Agent Marta” was a valued asset. When contacted by the Mail, Stone emphatically denied having been a spy, saying she “played” the agents, giving them only inconsequential information.
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06/01/2021
The Czech Republic defeated Denmark 2:1 via a shoot-out on Monday at the ongoing International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship in Riga, Latvia.
Denmark were eliminated with the result, while Switzerland and Slovakia will join the Czechs and Russians in the Group A quarter-finals. The Czech and Slovak teams face off on Wednesday.
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05/31/2021
Several additional coronavirus variants have been confirmed in the Czech Republic through sequencing – 53 cases of the South African, 13 of the Indian and nine of the Southeast Asian variants were detected, ČTK reports, citing public health data.
Of the 2,700 positive coronavirus samples sequenced by May 21, the British mutation still predominated. Authorities hope to increase the proportion of sequenced samples to five percent of positive results to achieve a more comprehensive assessment.
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05/31/2021
Tuesday morning should see mostly clear skies in the Czech Republic, with clouds moving in from the northeast by evening along with light rain. Daytime highs should range from 18 to 22 degrees Celsius.
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05/31/2021
Police on Monday proposed indicting Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and a former advisor for having allegedly temporarily changed the status of his Stork’s Nest complex over a decade ago to get an EU grant intended to support small and medium-sized businesses.
Two weeks ago, police announced they had concluded a six-year criminal investigation into whether Mr Babiš illegally acquired 2 million euros in EU subsidies through fraud. The proposal to indict the prime minister and his former advisor, Jana Mayerová, will now be dealt with by supervising public prosecutor Jaroslav Šaroch, who can file a charge, stop the criminal prosecution or settle the matter another way.
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05/31/2021
A Czech military plane has picked up 100,620 doses of Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech in Belgrade that Serbia is donating to the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said via Twitter.
The vaccines will go to the General University Hospital in Prague and, with permission from the State Institute for Drug Control (SÚKL), also to the vaccination centre at the O2 universum in the capital’s Libeň district.
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