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09/01/2022
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin is due to arrive in Prague next Friday, September 9, the Czech Ministry of Defence said on Thursday. The Pentagon chief will hold talks with Defence Minister Jana Černochová and Prime Minister Petr Fiala, focusing on aid to Ukraine and the current security situation.
According to the Ministry of Defence, the meeting will follow on from Mrs. Černochová’s visit to the US earlier this year, during which she discussed, among other things, the modernisation of the Czech Army.
The government recently decided to launch negotiations with the United States on the purchase of F-35 fighter jets.
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09/01/2022
The Forum 2000 International Award for Courage and Responsibility was presented in Prague on Thursday to Chinese citizen journalist and activist Zhang Zhan, who was imprisoned by the Chinese government for reporting the truth about the Covid epidemic in Wuhan. The award was received by Xiao Quing, editor in chief of the California-based China Digital Times.
The event was attended by Speaker of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil and former Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radičová. The 26th edition of the Forum 2000 international conference kicked off in Prague on Wednesday, focusing on threats to democracy and the response to them. It also features a special Forum for Ukraine addressing the country’s post-war future.
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09/01/2022
The Czech and Polish Air Force started to patrol Slovak airspace on Thursday after the NATO member stopped using Russian-made MiG fighter airplanes. Slovakia will rely on the help of its allies until it completes the purchase of US F16s.
The deal on the protection of Slovak skies was signed last week by the Czech, Slovak and Polish defence ministers. It is valid by the end of 2023, but can be extended.
The Czech Air Force has also been deployed in the Baltics as part of a NATO mission. Five Czech Gripen fighter jets and 95 military personnel have been guarding Baltic airspace since the start of April and will be deployed there until the end of September.
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09/01/2022
Prague saw the fifth hottest summer since records began back in 1775, the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute reported on Thursday.
Between the start of July and end of August, the oldest Czech meteorological station at Prague’s Clementinum recorded an average temperature of 22.2 degrees Celsius, the fifth highest in the past 245 years.
So far the hottest summer was set in 2019 with the average temperature of 22.9 degrees.
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09/01/2022
Eighty-two people died in traffic accidents on Czech roads over the course of the summer holidays, which is the lowest figure in the history of the Czech Republic, according to freshly released police statistics.
Over the first eight months, however, the number of road fatalities increased year-on-year. Accidents have claimed 306 lives so far this year, which is eight more than in the same period in 2021.
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09/01/2022
Some 1,927 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Czechia on Wednesday. It is 69 more than on the same day last week and the fourth day in a row that cases have risen.
By contrast, the number of people hospitalised with Covid continues to drop. On Wednesday, there were 744 Covid patients in Czech hospitals, which was around 160 fewer than in the previous week.
The current seven-day incidence rate is 102 cases per 100,000. The highest number of infected is in the Hradec Králové region, where it stands at 117.
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09/01/2022
Czechia’s state budget deficit could reach CZK 270 billion next year, according to the first draft prepared by the Ministry of Finance for 2023.
The draft budget envisages revenues of CZK 1.749 trillion and expenditures of CZK 2.019 trillion. Compared to the government-approved budget amendment for this year, the deficit is lower by CZK 60 billion.
In the medium-term outlook, the ministry proposes a budget deficit of CZK 250 billion for 2024 and CZK 230 billion for 2025. The cabinet must approve the proposal and send it to the Lower House by 30 September.
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09/01/2022
The new school year has begun in Czechia after two months of summer holidays. Some schools welcomed Czech politicians including Prime Minister Petr Fiala, President Miloš Zeman, and Education Minister Vladimír Balaš as guests of honour on their first day of the academic year.
The Ministry of Education estimates that roughly 60,000 Ukrainian refugees will be among the pupils taking their seats at primary and secondary schools across the country. Earlier this week, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said that schools are prepared for the arrival of the Ukrainian refugee children and that the quality of education for Czech pupils will not suffer.
This is the first time in three years that the start of the school year is not accompanied by regulations against the covid-19 epidemic.
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09/01/2022
Restrictions on entry to the Bohemian Switzerland National Park, introduced due to the extensive forest fire at the end of July, will remain in place until the end of September, the Czech News Agency reports. The ban on entering the forest in selected areas of the national park has been in effect since the end of July and was supposed to finish at the end of August, but the Environment Ministry has now decided to extend it by another month. The nighttime ban on entering the entire area of the national park will also remain in force. However, people are able to visit the parts of the park that were not affected by the fire without restrictions from September 1.
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08/31/2022
Seven new cases of monkeypox have been registered in Prague in the past week, bringing the total up to 37, according to information published on the website of Prague's hygiene station on Wednesday. So far, two patients have required hospitalisation. One patient developed acute kidney failure as a complication. At least another eight cases were previously confirmed by hygiene stations in other regions in Czechia, but the State Health Institute no longer publishes aggregate data.
Monkey pox has been common in West and Central African countries for some time but began to spread in Europe, the USA and other countries around the middle of May. According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, over 800 cases have been reported in 21 European countries so far.
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