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05/28/2021
The health authorities have expressed concern with regard to a sudden upsurge in new Covid-19 cases in the districts of Českolipsko, Šumperk a Český Krumlov.
While in the rest of the country the epidemic is slowing with an average 35 new cases per 1,000 inhabitants in these three districts the number of new cases has risen to 100 per 100,000.
Experts say there is a high probability the spike is due to the spread of the Indian mutation in these areas. Samples from the regions are being sequenced by the National Laboratory and the results should be known within a week.
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05/27/2021
Friday should bring cloudy to overcast skies and rain around the country with day temperatures between 13 and 18 degrees Celsius.
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05/27/2021
A head-on collision between two trains was narrowly averted near Prague’s Masaryk Railway Station on Thursday morning, a spokesman for Czech Railways reported.
A train from Mladá Boleslav approaching the station went through a red light, entering the path of a train going in the opposite direction to Milovice. The drivers managed to stop in time and no one was reported hurt. The incident is being investigated.
A similar incident took place at Masaryk Railway Station on May 10, when two trains running opposite each other stopped just four meters apart.
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05/27/2021
Documentary filmmaker Olga Sommerová will replace MP Dominik Feri in the Chamber of Deputies as of June 1, the ctk news agency reported citing the TOP 09 party. Feri resigned this week after several women accused him of sexual assault.
Olga Sommerová said her main interest would be support for Czech culture post-Covid. Her films focus on social themes and human relationships.
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05/27/2021
The Czech Republic registered 541 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, the smallest daily increase since the beginning of September. The Czech Republic now has 35 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants per week. The reproduction number is at 0.7.
The number of people hospitalized with Covid has dropped to under 700, of which 124 are in a serious condition. Over 1.6 million people in the Czech Republic contracted the virus since the pandemic hit and over 30,000 people died of Covid or related complications.
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05/27/2021
The Czech Republic is to receive a record number of Covid vaccines in June, but the health authorities are concerned about the growing lack of interest in getting inoculated among middle-aged and young people. As the epidemic slows the question of whether to get vaccinated is losing urgency and many young people are thinking twice about it.
The vaccine register opened to people over 30 this week of whom there are over 720,000; only around 100,000 have so far registered. The government says it will now target its inoculation campaign mainly at younger groups of the population. Health experts have advised inoculating approximately 70 percent of the population in order to achieve herd immunity.
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05/27/2021
A finance ministry audit at the National Sports Agency has revealed numerous irregularities in financial management, Czech Radio reported on Thursday.
According to the auditors’ report the agency spent millions on luxury cars and top notch mobiles and PCs without justifying the expenditures and often without an open competition.
The audit revealed 30 irregularities, such as a change of car tyres at the cost of 40 thousand crowns. There were also irregularities in contracts involving EU grants and excessive sums paid for outsourcing.
The former head of the agency, Milan Hnilička, resigned in mid-May, but claims his decision had nothing to do with the audit.
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05/27/2021
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jakub Kulhánek, has stressed that broad EU support in the case of the Vrbětice blasts is more important for the country than the number of Russian diplomats expelled by the allies.
In an interview for the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung Mr.Kulhánek dismissed claims that the Czech government had bungled the call for EU support which led to only five EU member states backing their words with actions and expelling Russian diplomats in a show of solidarity.
“The broad support expressed was crucial for us, many Russian ambassadors were summoned for an explanation, this is not a race in expelling diplomats,” the Czech foreign minister said.
Mr. Kulhánek gave the interview during a visit to Germany where he met with the German foreign minister, Heiko Maas. Germany did not expel any Russian diplomats over the Vrbětice incident and was reported to have been taken aback by the fact that it had not been informed about the matter in advance.
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05/26/2021
Thursday should be partly cloudy to overcast with scattered showers and day temperatures between 13 and 17 degrees Celsius.
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05/26/2021
The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday approved an amendment to the building law drafted by Regional Development Minister Klára Dostálová that aims to accelerate approvals on large construction projects. Currently, it takes an average of five years for can such projects to get all the necessary permits and approvals. The government says the aim is to shorten the process by at least a year.
The opposition parties have criticized the fact that the amendment will transfer all decision making to the state-run Supreme Building Authority which will be organized similarly to the tax authorities. The bill will now go to the Senate. It should come into force on July 1, 2023.
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