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05/29/2021
Vaccination against Covid-19 is crucial for children who have lung diseases such as asthma or suffer from an immune disorder, State Institute for Drug Control (SÚKL) head Irena Storová said on Friday.
She was responding to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommendation that children aged 12 to 15 years take the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine. In the Czech Republic, children aged 12 and up could be vaccinated as of end-June, said chief hygienist Pavla Svrčinová.
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05/29/2021
Czech criminal investigators have taken into custody Jaromír Prokop, the last at-large member of the so-called Berdych gang, who was extradited from the United States.
Prokop, whom the American police caught last spring, had been convicted in absentia to 13.5 years in prison for the kidnapping and death of a goldsmith in 1996 and numerous robberies.
At its height, the Berdych gang is believed to have had some 50 members. It specialized in kidnapping businessmen and heists, in some cases with the aid of police. In 2004 around 40 gang members were sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
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05/28/2021
Slavia Prague midfielder Lukáš Provod has been voted the best player in the first Czech football league this season. The team’s coach, Jindřich Trpišovský, was named best for the third consecutive year.
In the vote among coaches, team captains and sports journalists, Provod placed ahead of his club colleague Nicolae Stanciu and striker Adam Hložek from rival Sparta Prague.
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05/28/2021
The leadership of opposition party TOP 09 has called on MP Dominik Feri to suspend his party membership until an investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct is concluded.
Feri resigned his mandate earlier this week after two newspapers published accusations of improper conduct sexual assault and by several women.
He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2017 at the age of 21, becoming the Czech Republic’s youngest and also first black Member of Parliament.
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05/28/2021
Last year some 45,400 marriages were registered in the Czech Republic, about 9,500 fewer than in 2019, due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was the fourth-lowest number of marriages since 1918, the Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ) said.
Meanwhile, the average age of newlyweds continues to rise. Whereas in 2001, about 23 percent of people marrying were under the age of 25, by 2020, the percentage had fallen to 4 percent.
Over the same period, the proportion of men over 40 getting married rose to 32 percent from 15 percent and in the case of women to 24 percent from 10 percent. In one out of every 10 marriages, at least one of the parties is a foreigner.
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05/28/2021
Saturday should be mostly cloudy to overcast with light rain expected nationwide during the afternoon. Average daytime highs should range from 13 to 17 degrees Celsius.
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05/28/2021
People who have received a first coronavirus vaccine dose in the Czech Republic at least three weeks prior to this Monday can enter seven countries with which Prague has concluded an agreement: Germany, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia.
Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch said tourists with vaccination certificates from those countries can access services in the Czech Republic without restriction. Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhánek said people vaccinated from six non-EU countries (Israel, Australia, Thailand, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea) can enter Czech territory without restrictions and access services.
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05/28/2021
Prague city councillors have passed a climate plan outlining 69 measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The Czech capital in 2019 had already committed to reducing CO2 emissions by 45 percent by the year 2030.
The climate plan was approved after a four-hour debate. Central projects include building a biogas plant, using wastewater to heat houses, implementing energy-saving measures in public buildings, and converting streetlights into quick charging stations for electric cars.
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05/28/2021
As of Monday, indoor catering can also reopen in the Czech Republic, the recently reappointed Health Minister Adam Vojtěch said following Friday’s government meeting. The cabinet also agreed that swimming pools, saunas and wellness facilities can resume operations.
When inside cafés, pubs and restaurants, the same anti-coronavirus hygiene measures should apply as in the outside area. This means having proof of a current negative test result, vaccination or recovery from the virus. In addition, at most four people can be seated per table.
Also as of Monday, music, game, dance or social clubs and discos will be able to open although live music remains prohibited indoors. Also, unlike for restaurants and other services, visitors must have antigen or PCR tests performed by a healthcare professional, not self-tests, Vojtěch said.
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05/28/2021
Several dozen Russian diplomats, embassy staff and their families are due to leave the Czech Republic by May 31 under an agreement on “parity representation” between Prague and Moscow.
The reduction in staff was triggered by a diplomatic row over the Czech claim that Russian intelligence agents were behind a series of deadly blasts at a munitions depot in Moravia in 2014. The Czech Republic expelled 18 Russian agents from the country within 48 hours and another 63 diplomats and staff were given until the end of May to leave the country.
Under the agreement Prague and Moscow are bound to reduce the number of embassy staff at their respective representations to 7 diplomats, 25 administrative and technical workers and 19 local support staff by May 31. Moscow is dispatching special flights for its employees at the weekend.
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