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07/24/2022
Fire fighters are battling to contain a forest fire that started in the Bohemian Switzerland national park in the north of the country. The fire broke out on Saturday morning in a difficult to reach spot near Pravčická brána, a popular tourist destination, and spread to an area of around two hectares.
Sixteen units, as well as a police helicopter have been deployed at the site. The cause of the forest fire has not yet been established, but according to the spokesperson for the fire service, it has mostly likely been caused by human negligence.
A high-level fire-risk alert has been in place around Czechia over the past few days because of the hot and dry weather. Many regions, including Prague, have issued a ban on making fire and smoking out in the open.
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07/24/2022
The number of newly confirmed Covid-19 cases in Czechia reached 953 on Saturday, which is around 400 more than on the same day a week ago. There were 706 people hospitalized with Covid, 200 more than last Saturday. Twenty-eight of the patients were in serious condition.
The number of new Covid-19 cases has been steadily increasing since the beginning of June due to the spread of the more contagious Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. The seven-day incidence figure has risen to 146 per 100,000 people. The highest number of infected is in Prague, where it stands at 234.
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07/24/2022
More temperature records were broken in Czechia on Saturday, especially in the south-east of the country. The highest temperature for July 23 was surpassed at 26 stations that have been active for at least 30 years. The hottest temperature – 36.3 degrees Celsius – was registered in Strážnice in South Moravia.
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07/24/2022
Czech javelin thrower Jakub Vadlejch won the bronze medal at the World Championship in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday. The 31-year-old athlete, who won silver in Tokyo, threw 88,09 meters in the third series of throws.
Grenada's Anderson Peters retained his world javelin title with a throw of 90.54 meters, beating Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, who took the silver.
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07/23/2022
Tennis player Petra Kvitová will not take part in the Livesport Prague Open tournament, which is due to start in the Czech capital on Monday. The two-time Czech Wimbledon winner canceled her participation in the WTA event due to wrist inflammation.
The 32-year-old Czech won the tournament in 2018. Her compatriot Barbora Krejčíková will start her journey to defend last year’s victory with a match against Anna Blinkova from Russia.
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07/23/2022
A new exhibition of painting by old masters from the Renaissance, Mannerism and Baroque periods are on display in the Imperial Stables at Prague Castles.
The exhibition was officially launched on Friday and features a selection of works belonging to the collections of the Prague Castle Gallery, which has been closed for several years now due to an outdated air conditioning system.
The showcase, which will be on display until the end of October. includes paintings by Peter Pauls Rubens, Lucas Cranach, Hans Holbein and Tintoretto.
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07/23/2022
Sunday will be mostly sunny with occasional clouds and day temperatures ranging between 27 and 31 degrees Celsius.
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07/23/2022
Prague's gay pride march, Prague Pride, is due to take place on 13 August after a two-year break caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the organizers announced on Saturday.
The march, which has been taking place annually since 2011, will be the closing event of the week-long LGBT Festival that starts on 8 August. Some 20,000 people are expected to take part this year.
In addition to the gay pride march, the twelfth edition of the Prague Pride festival will offer around 150 events, including concerts, workshops, debates and theatre performances.
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07/23/2022
Deputy Prime Minister Vít Rakušan has been re-elected chairman of the STAN party of mayors and independents at a party congress in Hradec Králové on Saturday. He defended his post with 292 votes out of 305 delegates. MP Lukáš Vlček has been elected first chairman of the party.
The extraordinary congress was called following a huge corruption scandal, which led to the resignation of vice-chair and education minister Petr Gazdík. Another vice-chairman, MEP Stanislav Polčák, has suspended his membership in the party over his links with the lobbyist at the centre of the scandal.
Prior to Saturday’s vote, Vít Rakušan said the Mayors and Independents were dealing with the biggest problems since the party’s founding and said his plan was to plans to start professionalize the movement and restore trust among voters.
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07/23/2022
Some 150 people took part in the annual Pilgrimage of Reconciliation fromthe town of Pohořelice to Brno commemorating the victims of the post-war expulsion of local German-speaking population on Saturday.
The 30-kilometer route follows the one that the ethnic Germans must have taken but symbolically goes in the opposite direction. The event, which is is part of a festival entitled Meeting Brno, willculminate with a commemorative meeting in the Old Brno monastery.
Some 20,000 German-speaking inhabitants of Brno were forced to leave the city on May 31, 1945, and walk to the Austrian border. Around 1,700 are believed to have died of exhaustion on the way.
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