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07/29/2022
The opposition ANO party would win elections to the lower house of parliament with 29 percent voter support, suggests a freshly released poll by the Median agency.
According to the survey, the ruling Civic Democrats would come second with 16.1 percent, followed by Freedom and Direct Democracy with the backing of 12.5 percent of voters.
The Pirate Party, TOP 09 and Civic Democrats would also make it to the lower house, if parliamentary elections were held in July.
By contrast, the Mayors and Independents and Christian Democrats would not reach the five-percent threshold needed to win seats in the Chamber of Deputies, suggests the poll.
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07/29/2022
The rate of increase in newly confirmed cases of coronavirus in Czechia is slowing down. In the last seven days, 16,916 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, about 2,200 more than the previous week, compared to the week before when the increase was double that.
Thursday was the first day that the numbers fell in a week-on-week comparison since the current wave of the virus in Czechia began in early June. The number of new cases was lower both in the week-on-week comparison and in comparison with the previous day. There were 2,558 new infections, 139 fewer than last Thursday and 418 fewer than Wednesday.
There are 1,170 people hospitalised with Covid according to Ministry of Health data, of which 38 are in a critical condition, six less than a week ago.
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07/29/2022
Two aircraft from Sweden arrived in Czechia on Friday to help with the firefighting efforts in Bohemian Switzerland. The Air Tractor planes are of a similar type to the Canadair aircraft from Italy that arrived on Wednesday and have now had to be recalled to join firefighting efforts on the Italian peninsula, in the sense that they can both take water directly from the surface. However, each of the Swedish planes can only hold 3,000 litres of water, half of the capacity of the planes from Italy.
The fire in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park has been raging since Sunday. The fire has affected an area of around 1,200 hectares, or five by two kilometres. About 500 people have had to be evacuated so far.
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07/28/2022
Two Czech citizens have been found dead in the French Alps. The French police found their bodies around noon on Thursday at the bottom of an approximately 30-meter-deep crack on the north face of the Barre des Écrins, the highest mountain in the Dauphiné Alps, at an altitude of approximately 3,900 meters. The cause of death is still being investigated, according to Czech and French media reports.
The pair, 45-year-old Marek Papoušek and 48-year-old Pavla Marečková, both from Žďár nad Sázavou, had been missing since they failed to return home from their vacation. The couple were last known to be in the Ecrins National Park on July 19 and were supposed to return home last Friday. A request for help in finding the missing climbers was shared on Facebook by the couple's acquaintances and students of the high school where Papoušek taught. The Czech police removed the names of the pair of tourists from the database of missing persons, where they had been listed since July 25, on Thursday afternoon.
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07/28/2022
Four new cases of monkeypox were recorded in Prague on Thursday, the second highest number in one day so far. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the Czech Republic up to 20. Except for one case which was recorded in the Ústí nad Labem region, all the cases so far have been in the capital.
Monkey pox has been common in West and Central African countries for some time, but around May, the infection began to spread in Europe, the USA, and other countries.
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07/28/2022
Friday should be overcast with a chance of some rain and day temperatures between 17 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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07/28/2022
The remaining dead fish that were still floating in the Dyje river in the Břeclav region on Wednesday should be fished out of the water by Thursday evening, the Czech News Agency reports. Dozens of tons of fish were found dead in the river last week due to a lack of oxygen caused by an overabundance of cyanobacteria. Fishermen also blame a power plant on the Novomlýn reservoirs, which halted operations on Sunday morning after a second load of dead fish were found.
By Tuesday evening, fishermen and firefighters had already hauled 40 tons of dead fish out of the river and had managed to clean the section from the Novomlýn reservoirs. Due to the large amount of time that has elapsed since they died, some of the smaller fish are already in an advanced stage of decomposition.
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07/28/2022
A 29-year-old man shot his ex-girlfriend on Thursday morning at the regional authority building in Zlín where she worked and then unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, the Czech News Agency reports. She died on the spot, while her assailant is in hospital with severe brain damage and head injuries under the supervision of police. A spokesperson for the hospital told the Czech News Agency that he is also in danger of losing his life.
The police received reports of the shooting at the so-called Baťa skyscraper where the regional authority is based shortly before 9:30 a.m. The police and emergency services arrived at the scene shortly after.
The 16-storey building remains open to the public, except for the 14th floor where the incident took place.
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07/28/2022
The Dukovany nuclear power plant in South Moravia has ended its scheduled shutdown of unit 4 which started on June 3, and reconnected it to the grid in the early hours of Thursday morning. All four units are now back in operation. It should reach full performance by the end of the week, the Czech News Agency reports.
The planned shutdown was implemented in order to replace part of the fuel, carry out maintenance work, and to service and check the equipment. A further shutdown of unit 3 is scheduled to start in October.
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07/28/2022
The operating profits of Czech car company Škoda Auto fell during the first six months of this year to 676 million euros from last year's 974 million euros, according to parent company Volkswagen’s earnings report released on Thursday. The loss is attributed to higher production costs, unfavourable exchange rates, and the war in Ukraine.
At the beginning of March, Škoda announced that due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it would suspend production at its Russian plants in Kaluga and Nizhny Novgorod and stop exporting cars to Russia, although last year Russia was its second largest market.
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