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10/02/2022
The number of people hospitalised with Covid-19 in Czechia stood at 1,381 on Saturday, a rise of 414 on the same day a week earlier. Of the latest number 48 are in a critical condition, up from 28 seven days previously.
Some 667 new cases of the coronavirus were recorded on Saturday, a rise of 100 compared to a week earlier. Testing was one-quarter down.
As in previous years, infection rates have risen in Czechia since the end of the summer holidays.
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10/02/2022
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 16 degrees Celsius. Cloudy skies are expected through much of the week.
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10/02/2022
An estimated half million senior citizens in Czechia are living on the verge of poverty, Czech Television reported on Sunday. There are over two million people of pension age in the country, with most living on old-age pensions alone and concerned about high inflation which is causing the living standards of many to fall markedly, the station said.
Year-on-year inflation in Czechia has been around 17 percent in recent months and there are fears prices could rise even higher.
The director of seniors’ organisation Život 90, Jaroslav Lorman, told Czech Television that things were particularly tough for old people living alone in rented accommodation, with rents and power prices rising. Increasing food prices are also hitting the elderly, he said.
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10/02/2022
Russian historian Andrey Zubov, who is a critic of the current government in Russia, is set to teach at Brno’s Masaryk University. The 70-year-old academic has recently been in Finland, which he said he had entered from Russia at the last moment before the border was closed. He said on Facebook he hoped he had only left Russia for a short period.
A spokesperson for Masaryk University said he would conduct a series of lectures on Russian 20th century history.
Mr. Zubov is a long-term opponent of Vladimir Putin and lost his position at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations after condemning Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014.
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10/01/2022
The leader of the Civic Democrats, Prime Minister Petr Fiala, said that result of the elections was unequivocal for the Together coalition, comprising the Civic Democrats, TOP 09 and the Christian Democrats, who took 20 of 27 potential Senate seats.
Speaking at the headquarters of the Together campaign in Brno on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Fiala thanked TOP 09 leader Markéta Pekarová Adamová and Christian Democrats chairman Marian Jurečka, saying that the Together project had a “big future”.
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10/01/2022
Government coalition leaders the Civic Democrats have emerged as the biggest winners of elections to one-third of the seats in the Czech Senate, taking eight of the 27 mandates contested.
Second-round, two-candidate runoffs were held in 24 constituencies on Friday and Saturday after three candidates won seats by gaining more than 50 percent in last weekend’s first round.
The Christian Democrats, also a coalition party, gained seven seats in the upper house. Opposition leaders ANO – who had said Senate and municipal elections were a referendum on the government – took three of the places up for grabs.
Opposition grouping Freedom and Direct Democracy lost the one second-round contest they were in, against ANO.
The Social Democrats, who had an overall majority in the Senate 12 years ago, continued the slide seen when they failed to reach the lower house last year; the party won no fresh seats and now have only one senator.
Second-round turnout reached 19.5 percent.
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10/01/2022
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the country strongly condemned what it called another abuse of veto power by Russia at the United Nations Security Council in New York. In a tweet on Saturday the minister said the resolution would now move to the UN General Assembly, where all countries could let Moscow know “how they feel about liars and bullies”.
On Friday Russia vetoed a resolution condemning the annexation of four regions in Ukraine by the Moscow government as a breach of international law.
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10/01/2022
In one of the most keenly watched second-round duels for a mandate in the Senate, the Civic Democrats’ chairman of the upper house, Miloš Vystrčil, beat ANO candidate Jana Nagyová by over 20 percent in the Jihilava constituency. Ms. Nagyová is currently on trial for corruption alongside ANO party boss Andrej Babiš, who personally took part in electoral meetings in the Vysočina city in recent days.
Mr. Vystrčil told Czech Television that his team had beaten Mr. Babiš’s “100-member team and infinite amount of money”.
The Jihlava runoff saw a relatively high turnout of 38.3 percent.
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10/01/2022
The second round of voting to one-third of the seats in the Czech Senate ended on Saturday at 2 pm. Ballots saw two candidates face off in 24 constituencies around the country.
The polls will decide whether the opposition ANO or the parties in the government coalition boost their position in the upper chamber. Results are expected later on Saturday.
One of the most closely watched races has been in Jihlava, where Senate speaker Miloš Vystrčil of the Civic Democrats faced ANO’s Jana Nagyová, who is currently on trial for corruption with her party boss Andrej Babiš.
Three Senate seats were filled last weekend when candidates received over 50 percent in the first round.
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10/01/2022
Tourists have begun returning to the Pravčice Gate sandstone bridge, two months after a major fire hit the Czech Switzerland National Park in the north of the country. Hundreds of Czechs and foreigners visited the popular site on Saturday, following its official reopening.
In addition a bar on entering the national park at night has been lifted, while a popular pathway has also been reopened.
The fire was the worst of its kind seen in the independent Czechia. It broke out in late July and caused smoke that could be seen in many parts of the country.
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