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05/24/2021
Registration for vaccination against Covid=19 opened to people in the Czech Republic in the 35 to 39 age category on Monday morning. Around 50,000 people in that bracket had signed up for inoculation by 8 am, officials said. This was slower than initial take-up among older age groups.
The move means that vaccines are now available to 6.6 million people in the country of 10.7 million.
From Wednesday it will be possible for those aged 30 or more to sign up for vaccination.
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05/24/2021
Restaurants could fully reopen from June 14, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said in his weekly Sunday address on social media. This Monday, the government is set to discuss a long-term strategy, developed by Chief Hygienist Pavla Svrčinová, for how to proceed with the epidemic. Aside from reopening restaurants and fitness centre locker rooms, the plan also includes new measures, such as obliging travellers to take a coronavirus test after they return from summer holidays.
Not everyone has welcomed the proposed reopening of restaurants in three weeks’ time. The head of the Association of Trade and Tourism, Tomáš Prouza, reacted by saying that June 14 had been selected without any explanation and that restaurants would be opening at least one week sooner if the government kept to its already announced conditions for reopening.
Currently, restaurants, bars and cafes are only allowed to serve sitting guests in gardens and outdoor spaces.
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05/24/2021
This Monday sees primary schools and high schools return to full-time teaching in all regions, after months of home-schooling. Until now, the full return to normal teaching was only possible in some regions, due to the epidemic situation. Universities have also been given the green light to fully reopen.
The wearing of respirators, as well as regular testing, remains obligatory in schools.
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05/23/2021
Claims by President Miloš Zeman and Justice Minister Marie Benešová that there are multiple investigation versions about what caused the 2014 explosion in the Vrbětice munitions depot are damaging to Czech and NATO interests, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Pavel Rychetský told Czech Television on Sunday. He said that he believes it is certain that the Russians were involved.
The reaction comes weeks after President Zeman claimed that the involvement of Russian intelligence in the blast, which killed two people, was only one version of what happened in Vrbětice in 2014. Mr. Rychetský also said that Russia will always remain a threat for Central Europe, because it is unwilling to forget the time when it was in control of the region.
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05/23/2021
Monday will see temperatures rise up to 20 degrees Celsius, with overcast skies, particularly in Moravia, but no rainfall.
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05/23/2021
The government has allowed small, single-hall cinemas to reopen on Monday, for the first time since mid-October. Not all cinemas are expected to reopen immediately. Large multiplexes, such as Cinestar, Cinema City and Premiere Cinemas, have stated that they do not wish to reopen until they are again allowed to sell refreshments.
Monday will also see the number of people allowed to attend outdoor events raised to 1,000 and to 500 for indoor events. However, organisers are allowed to fill up event spaces only up to half of their full capacity.
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05/23/2021
Czech climber Adam Ondra came in first at the IFSC Boulder World Cup in Salt Lake City on Saturday. It is his second World Cup victory this year.
The 28-year-old climber was the only one of the last six contestants to reach all four of the walls in the finals, with France’s Mejdi Schalck and Austria’s Jakob Schubert coming in second and third.
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05/23/2021
The Czech economy will grow by 3 percent this year, followed by a 3.9 percent growth in 2022, according to the results of a regular economic survey conducted by the Ministry of Finance.
In 2023 and 2024, the ministry predicts the economy to grow by 3 percent. Inflation is expected to gradually fall coupled with a strengthening of the crown. Meanwhile, unemployment is expected to hover around the 3 percent mark.
The survey explored the prognoses of 16 economic projections made in the Czech Republic, by a mix of public and private institutions.
Last year saw the economy contract by 5.6 percent as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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05/23/2021
The National Library in Prague is planning to reopen on Monday morning after a forced closedown following the detection of an attempted cyber attack on its systems, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday.
Compulsory wearing of respirators and limits to the number of people who can be inside at any given time will still be in place.
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05/23/2021
Sociologist Jiřina Šiklová, a Charter 77 signatory who was known for her efforts in smuggling forbidden literature into Communist Czechoslovakia, has died, news site Aktuálně.cz reported on Saturday night.
Šiklová studied history and philosophy at Charles University and her activity was one of the catalysts for the Prague Spring movement. Following the crushing of that movement in 1968, she was forced to leave her position at Charles University and worked as a janitor for a few years.
She was known as a pioneer of Gender Studies in the Czech Republic, writing on the subject of women in Czech dissent, and helped found the Prague Gender Studies Center.
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