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10/24/2022
The Czech police’s rapid intervention unit shot a suspect during a raid in the Prague district of Střížkov on Monday morning, a spokesperson said. The man, who is a foreign national, was left in a serious condition after the shooting and received first aid from the police.
A second raid took place in the Letňany district, Novinky.cz reported. Officers from the Czech customs administration were also involved, the news website said.
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10/24/2022
Over 5,000 people in Czechia have undergone gender reassignment, Czech Television reported on Monday. The number of Czech teenagers dealing with issues of sexual identity has increased in recent years due to the influences of social media and education, it said.
Czech law has allowed for gender reassignment since 2012. Initially there were fewer than 50 applications a year but last year the figure reached almost 200, Czech Television said.
Requests for gender reassignment are handled by a special commission at the Ministry of Health. While it used to meet four times a year, it currently meets once a month.
Greater interest has led to longer waiting periods for treatment.
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10/24/2022
The minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, says he expects Czech hospitals to see increasing numbers of patients with Covid-19 and influenza in November. He made the comments during a visit to a Brno hospital to promote vaccination against the coronavirus.
Mr. Válek said that the number of people in Czechia who had had a fourth vaccination was approaching 600,000.
He said getting the jab was particularly important for the elderly and the obese and people with other diseases.
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10/24/2022
The three-time Olympic champion Ester Ledecká says she broke her collarbone during the summer. In an interview with the daily Sport published on Monday the Czech snowboarder and downhill skier said that she had required surgery after breaking her collarbone while training.
Ledecká skied for the first time since the accident last week but says her shoulder is still injured and she was battling to get back to full action.
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10/24/2022
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 17 degrees Celsius. The mild weather for the time of year is expected to continue over the following week.
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10/24/2022
A two-day conference of ministers focused on migration begins in Prague on Monday. Held within the Prague Process, which was established in 2009, it brings together representatives of nearly 50 European states, including from the Schengen zone, the Eastern Partnership region, the Western Balkans, Central Asia and Turkey.
Russia and Belarus have not been invited in view of the war in Ukraine.
Czechia currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union council and the meeting is being headed by the country’s minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan.
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10/24/2022
The world-renowned Czech conductor Libor Pešek has died at the age of 89. In a career spanning seven decades, Mr. Pešek helmed orchestras across Europe and headed the Czech Philharmonic, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and the UK’s Royal Liverpool Orchestra.
He was best-known for his interpretations of Czech music and championed lesser-known Czech composers such as Josef Suk and Vítězslav Novák.
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10/23/2022
Some 282 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Czechia on Saturday, a fall of 60 on the same day a week earlier. There were 940 people in hospital with the coronavirus on Saturday. This was the lowest figure seen since the middle of September and was roughly 450 fewer than seven days previously.
According to data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there were 66 Covid deaths in the last week. In the previous week over twice that number, 138, died with the virus.
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10/23/2022
The Czech power company ČEZ has lost hundreds of thousands or even billions of crowns over outages in supply from Russia, CEO Daniel Beneš said on Czech Television’s Otázky Václava Moravce programme on Sunday.
Mr. Beneš said it made no sense to discuss supplies next year with the Russian company Gazprom and that the only possible step was to take an international arbitration case.
Speaking on the same TV show, the head of the national nuclear safety watchdog, Dana Drábová, said energy price fluctuations began in autumn last year, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; she said “Russia’s emperor” Putin had made the most of that situation.
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10/23/2022
The number of Ukrainian refugees who have received temporary protection status in Czechia has now passed 450,000. During the last week 3,288 more people were given these special visas, bringing the total number to 450,090, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
The visas grant Ukrainian refugees access to Czech public health insurance, education and the labour market.
Many of those who received temporary protection following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have returned to the country, but there are still believed to be around 320,000 Ukrainian refugees in Czechia.
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