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07/21/2022
Czech tennis player Kateřina Siniaková is set to play USA’s Bernarda Pera in the quarterfinal of the Hamburg European Open (formerly the German Open) this Thursday afternoon.
Siniaková is the last Czech woman in the ATP Tour tournament after no. 3 seed Barbora Krejčíková lost to Russia’s Anastasia Potapova 1:6 3:6. Both players had several break points, but Potapova was more successful into transforming them into breaking the opponent’s set.
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07/21/2022
Several dozens of tons of dead fish have been discovered in the Dyje river in South Moravia, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday.
The reason for the many dead fish is the loss of oxygen in the river in connection with the overgrowth of cyanobacteria, according to the spokesman of the Povodí Moravy administration Petr Chmelař.
The spokeswoman of nearby Břeclav City Hall, Jana Pelcová, told Czech Television that clearing the large amount of dead fish will take at least a week.
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07/21/2022
Police in the Vysočina Region have arrested two men accused of planning to abduct the daughter of a South Moravian businessmen with the intent to blackmail him, news site DeníkN.cz reported on Friday. The woman was in the abductors’ car when she managed to escape from the vehicle as the two men were closing the doors. She was then able to contact the police.
According to Police spokesman Pavel Šváb, the two men could face between 5 to 12 years in prison if found guilty.
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07/21/2022
Wednesday was one of the hottest days of the year in Czechia with seven monitoring stations registering a temperature of over 36 degrees Celsius. Temperature records for July 20 were broken at around 30 monitoring stations that have been active for at least 30 years. The highest temperature - 36.9 degrees Celsius - was registered in Husinec-Řež in Central Bohemia.
Meteorologists have extended an extreme heat warning for the entire country until Friday. Temperatures on Thursday are again expected to exceed 36 degrees Celsius in places and Friday should bring temperatures of up to 35 degrees.
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07/21/2022
European Ministers for Research and Innovation are due to arrive in Prague on Thursday for an informal meeting within the Czech EU Presidency. The even will be launched with a dinner at the Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Castle.
The meeting will focus on cooperation in research funding from national and EU funds as well as on the situation of scientists from Ukraine. It will be chaired by Education Minister Vladimír Balaš and will be attended, among others, by EU Research Commissioner Marija Gabrielová and ministers from associated countries such as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
Strengthening cooperation in research funding is one of the priorities of the Czech EU Presidency. A so-called Prague Declaration on cooperation in research funding should be established under the country’s leadership.
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07/20/2022
The number of newly confirmed Covid-19 cases in Czechia reached 3,240 on Tuesday, which is 1,260 more than on the same day a week ago and the biggest increase since the last wave of the pandemic in late April.
The number of people hospitalized with Covid has now reached 590, which is 166 more than last week. Twenty-one of the patients are in serious condition.
The seven-day incidence figure has risen to 121 per 100,000 people. The highest number of infected is in Prague, where it stands at 206.
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07/20/2022
Thursday should be mostly sunny with occasional showers and storms and day temperatures reaching over 35 degrees Celsius.
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07/20/2022
The Czech lower house of Parliament has approved a bill banning the manufacture and sale of single-use plastic products, such as cutlery, plates and drinking straws. According to the Ministry of the Environment, it should reduce the consumption of such plastic products by around 1.77 billion units per year.
The ban was supposed to be introduced into the Czech legal system last July, in line with EU regulations, but MPs failed to get it approved before their term in office ended.
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07/20/2022
Czech Army planes will patrol the Baltic airspace until the end of September, two months longer than originally planned, Defence Minister Jana Černochová announced on Wednesday, adding that this was in response to a request from Lithuania.
Five Czech Gripen fighter jets and 95 military personnel have been monitoring the Baltic airspace within a NATO mission since the start of April.
It is the fourth mission of Czech pilots in the Baltics and the seventh time in total that the Czech Air Force has been deployed to protect NATO member states.
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07/20/2022
The Czech Ministry of Defence will start negotiating with the US on the acquisition of US F-35 fighter jets, the government decided on Wednesday. According to Defence Minister Jana Černochová, the decision was made on the basis of military recommendations. The US planes will replace the Swedish Gripens, which the army has loaned until 2027.
The government has also agreed to cancel a tender for the purchase of infantry fighting vehicles worth more than CZK 50 billion and will instead directly approach the Swedish manufacturer of the CV-90 machine BAE Systems.
Mrs Černochová said the tender was cancelled on the basis of a recommendation from legal experts. The new machines are to replace the old Soviet vehicles.
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