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05/31/2021
The “Kings of the Sun” exhibition, part of an international project documenting the greatest archaeological discoveries of Czech Egyptologists connected with the research of the Egyptian Abusir, will remain at the National Museum through September.
The exhibition was originally due to end this February, but due to anti-coronavirus measures, the museum had to close for months, and far fewer people had a chance to see it.
“Kings of the Sun” features hundreds of ancient Egyptian artefacts that had never before left Cairo along with treasures from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC unearthed by Czech archaeologists over the past 100 years.
Among the artefacts are many on loan from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Great Egyptian Museum in Giza, and a number of German museums.
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05/31/2021
Together with the Czech arms group Omnipol, a new Hungarian partner could soon acquire Aero Vodochody, the largest military airplane manufacturer in the Czech Republic, the business daily Hospodářské noviny reports.
Financier Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, a person close to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, is entering the operation together with Omnipol, the newspaper said. Aero Vodochody’s current owner, the Czech-Slovak Penta group, declined to comment.
Aero Vodochody was established just months after the foundation of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918. It has produced over 11,000 aircraft and now provides deliveries and service support to customers in 60 countries.
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05/31/2021
After contracting sharply in 2020, Czech GDP is projected to recover by 3.3 percent this year and 4.9 percent in 2022, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in its latest economic snapshot.
The country has had a high Covid-19 infection and death rate and progress in vaccinations has been relatively slow, but recovery should gather pace in the second half of 2021, the OECD said, once the population is more extensively vaccinated.
A rebound in services and boosting of private consumption and investment should be accompanied by higher inflation due to rising food and fuel prices. Unemployment, already low, will start to decline, the OECD said
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05/31/2021
President Miloš Zeman is due to receive Prime Minister Andrej Babiš at Lány the chateau for a regular meeting on Monday. They are expected to discuss the ongoing diplomatic rift with Russia and upcoming confidence vote in Babiš’s government.
In mid-April, the Czech government announced evidence that Russian intelligence agents were behind a series of blasts in 2014 at a munition depot in Vrbětice, ordered 18 Russian agents to leave the country within 48 hours and another 63 diplomats and Russian Embassy staff to go by 31 May.
Separately, Zeman is be expected to declare support for Babiš’s government ahead of this week’s confidence vote in the lower house. The president has said the minority ANO-Social Democrat government should lead the country to the October elections, even if it loses confidence.
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05/31/2021
Further easing of anti-coronavirus measures came into force in the Czech Republic on Monday. For the first time in over five months, indoor catering is permitted. Swimming pools, saunas and wellness facilities, as well as bars, discos and casinos and museums, can once again receive guests.
Some restrictions apply. Indoor catering is limited to four people per table, live music and dancing is not permitted in discos, and visitors to most venues must have a valid negative Covid-19 test, or proof of having been vaccinated or recovered from the virus.
Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch said self-tests are valid only in restaurants, stressing that he would not have eased restrictions if not for a Supreme Administrative Court ruling that blanket restrictions on restaurants were illegal.
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05/30/2021
Weeks of events marking the 300th anniversary of the beatification of Jan Nepomucký (St. John of Nepomuk) culminated in his hometown with a Sunday mass led by Bishop Tomáš Holub and a concert by opera singer Eva Urbanová in his honour. An evening mass is also set for Monday, exactly three centuries after he was beatified on 31 May 1721.
Nepomucký, a court priest, died a martyr’s death after invoking the wrath of King Wenceslas IV. Legend has it that the king had him tortured, killed and thrown into the Vltava River because he refused to divulge the queen’s secrets, told to him in confession.
Historical evidence points to him having been killed for siding with Rome in a political dispute over who would become the next Abbot of Kladruby. He is revered as the patron saint of Bohemia and a protector from floods and drowning.
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05/30/2021
Health Minister Adam Vojtěch wants regular PCR tests for Covid-19 to be administered in schools also following the summer break, he told CNN Prima News on Sunday. Vojtěch is due to discuss the issue with Minister of Education Robert Plaga on Monday. The aim is to keep schools open full time.
As of late next week, anyone over aged 16 year can register to get vaccinated against coronavirus and by the end of June that may be extended to children aged 12 to 15 years, for whom the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine is recommended by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
To date, over 1.4 million people in the Czech Republic (less than 10 percent of the population) have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus while almost 3.7 million people have at least one dose.
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05/30/2021
Toyen’s 1929 painting “Night Celebration (Fireworks)” sold for 30.4 million crowns in a Prague auction on Sunday, the third-highest price for a work by the Czech avant-garde painter at a domestic auction.
Auctioneers said “Night Celebration (Fireworks)” is a prime example of Toyen’s artificialism style, bold artistic approach and creative range. Including fees, the final sale price was 36.48 million crowns. Her painting “Circus” sold for nearly 80 million crowns in April.
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05/30/2021
Monday should be partly cloudy with average daytime highs of 16 to 20 degrees Celsius. Occainsional light rain is expected especially in southern and eastern regions.
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05/30/2021
People aged 16 to 29 can registered to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as of Thursday evening, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced via Twitter. He said that amounts to nearly 1.5 million people.
“I believe that even the youngest will show great interest,” he wrote. According to Babiš, 168,000 people aged 30 to 50 are now waiting for a first dose.
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