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04/19/2022
The Czech government has decided to intensify the purchase of new military equipment, Právo wrote on Tuesday. In response to Russia’s war on Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence has begun moves to acquire new technology much more quickly and in greater volume than previously planned, the newspaper said.
The ministry is to get tens of billions of crowns in additional funding in the next three years.
The shopping list includes dozens of Pandur and Titus armoured personnel carriers, while an order for Bell helicopters is to be doubled, Právo said.
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04/19/2022
The state prosecutor has charged a man who last year shot dead an employee at a labour office in Prague. The man confessed to the police that he had killed the female staff member.
The perpetrator, who is 66, could face what is referred to as an exceptional punishment, including life imprisonment. He is also charged with attempted murder, attempted grievous bodily harm, possession of two illegal firearms and damage to property.
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04/19/2022
The Czech Republic has now granted special visas to almost 296,000 refugees from Ukraine. A smaller number of visas than usual – almost 800 – were handed out on Monday, which was a state holiday. The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, said last week that around 300,000 Ukrainian’s seeking refuge from Russia’s war on their country had arrived in the Czech Republic. The majority are women and children.
The Ukrainians receive temporary protection visas that allow them to stay for one year. They also get access to health insurance, education and the labour market and are entitled to further assistance, such as with accommodation.
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04/19/2022
The Oscar-winning Czech film director Jan Svěrák has written the book for a new musical entitled the Braník Miracle (Branický zázrak). It is the first time Mr. Svěrák, who is 57, has worked on a theatre project. The musical’s songs and lyrics have been written by Czech pop star Tomáš Klus. The premiere is set to take place at Prague’s Na Fidlovačce theatre on May 17.
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04/19/2022
Czech police have begun investigating possible war crimes committed in Ukraine. A team of officers from the national organised crime unit are gathering testimonies from refugees who fled Russia’s war on Ukraine and are now in the Czech Republic, according to a statement released on Tuesday. The supreme state prosecutor, Lenka Bradáčová, said that the police were planning an information campaign with a view to collecting usable evidence.
Ms. Bradáčová said that criminal proceedings in the matter were not yet at the stage where specific people could be prosecuted for war crimes.
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04/19/2022
Laboratories in the Czech Republic registered 880 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday, the second lowest number registered this year. Close to 6,000 tests were conducted that day. The number of people hospitalized with Covid has dropped to 748, of whom 52 require intensive care. The authorities have lifted almost all Covid restrictions and respirators are now only required in health facilities and care homes. There are currently no restrictions of travel.
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04/19/2022
Education Minister Petr Gazdik has welcomed a principal’s decision to sack a primary school teacher who spread disinformation about the war in Ukraine in her class. The teacher told a class of 8th graders that none of the atrocities shown on Czech Television were happening in Ukraine and that the public broadcaster was not to be trusted. Students secretly recorded the lecture and showed it to the school principal who promptly fired the teacher in question. The education minister threw his weight behind the decision, saying that while everyone has the right to an opinion, they do not have the right to spread lies.
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04/18/2022
The Interior Ministry is having problems finding accommodation for the several hundred Ukrainian Romanies who are seeking refuge in the Czech Republic, the news site Novinky reported. The problem with finding accommodation for Romany refugees is that there often come in groups of up to 30 people who want to stay together in one place and refuse to split up into different localities. Around 1 200 have arrived and the authorities say they lack the required accommodation for around 500 of them. Interior Minister Vít Rakušan has rejected claims that they were discriminated against. “They are treated like all other refugees. If they refuse the accommodation we offer them, then they are not entitled to further assistance” the minister told Novinky.
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04/18/2022
Tuesday should be cloudy to overcast with rain and day temperatures between 6 and 11 degrees Celsius.
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04/18/2022
Health Minister Vlastimil Válek has indicated that he is prepared to do away with compulsory respirators in hospitals and care homes –the last places where they are still required -at the end of April.
The health minister is moreover hoping that the government will not have to make respirators compulsory in the autumn when the country is likely to be hit by another wave of the Covid pandemic.
Although Covid numbers have been dropping in recent weeks, samples of sewage water indicate a high viral load among the population and epidemiologists say that another wave of the epidemic is almost certain to come in the autumn.
Minister Valek told the daily Lidove noviny that in the event of another wave the government’s priority would be to vaccinate high-risk groups of the population combined with a recommendation for people to wear respirators in crowded places.
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