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04/14/2022
Two new dates will be added to the Czech Republic’s list of official “significant days”. President Miloš Zeman on Thursday signed the amendment to the law on public holidays proclaiming 27 May, the day of the assassination of the Nazi governor of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, Day of National Resistance.
June 25, the anniversary of the signing of the protocol on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the territory of the former Czechoslovakia in 1991, is to be marked as Day of Departure of the Occupying Forces.
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04/14/2022
Some 3,464 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Wednesday. This was around 1,800 fewer than on the same day last week and also the lowest figure recorded on a weekday so far this year. There were 606 repeat infections.
The seven-day case incidence rate was also down on Wednesday, at 233 per 100,000 of the population, which is the lowest figure since the end of last October.
A total of 1,311 people are currently hospitalised with Covid, with 71 of them in a serious condition.
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04/14/2022
A delegation of Czech and Polish senators are on a visit to Ukraine on Thursday at the invitation of the head of the Ukrainian Supreme Council Ruslan Stefanchuk.
Czech Senate chairman Miloš Vystrčil, who is heading the Czech delegation, told Czech Television he is due to address the Ukrainian Parliament. The group of senators will also be taken to villages around Kyiv to see the carnage wrought by Russian forces.
Earlier on Thursday, Mr Vystrčil released a photo of the group of senators on board a train with a comment that there are some invitations that cannot be declined.
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04/14/2022
From Thursday it is no longer compulsory to wear respirators on public transport in the Czech Republic. The government decided to ease the restriction aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 at a meeting on Wednesday, following a fall in infection rates and hospitalisation numbers.
Respirators must still be used at health and social care facilities.
The minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, has recommended that people continue to wear them on public transport and in crowded places.
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04/14/2022
Russia on Wednesday expelled the Czech Republic’s deputy ambassador to Moscow. The diplomat has until Saturday to leave the country. Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Lenka Do said that the move came in response to the expulsion of Russia’s deputy ambassador from the Czech Republic last month.
Ms. Do said Moscow’s reaction had not been proportionate as the Prague Russian Embassy employee expelled in March had demonstrably used diplomatic cover to operate for the Russian intelligence services.
Last year the Czech government expelled Russian Embassy staff following revelations Russian agents had been behind a deadly operation on Czech territory in 2014, sparking tit-for-tat reprisals.
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04/13/2022
Czech diplomats have returned to the country’s embassy in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Twitter on Wednesday. It said the move was an expression of support for Ukraine and that Czechia would always stand with the country. A photograph showed the Czech tricolour once again flying over the diplomatic mission.
The embassy closed on February 24, the day Russia launched a war on Ukraine. The Russians failed to capture Kyiv and have since concentrated their aggression elsewhere.
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04/13/2022
The Czech government on Wednesday approved strategy priorities for handling the crisis caused by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the country. Prime Minister Petr Fiala said the cabinet had also created the position of national coordinator, which would be temporarily filled by the minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan.
The PM said the strategy rubberstamped by ministers was still an “open document” which could be amended after discussions, including in the lower house.
It envisages CZK 54 billion being needed to cover the cost of handling the refugee situation, with some of that money due to come from the European Union.
Mr. Rakušan said that after the first wave of the crisis another phase was coming in which long-term solutions would need to be implemented.
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04/13/2022
The Czech Ministry of Agriculture is planning to carry out checks on sellers’ margins on certain foodstuffs, Minister Zdeněk Nekula said on Wednesday. The controls will be carried out in conjunction with the Office for the Protection of Competition.
In an interview earlier for newspaper Hospodářské noviny Mr. Nekula said his officials were considering a similar step to one taken in connection with fuels, when a reduction in prices resulted.
The minister said the margins on essential foods such as butter, chicken and pork and breads would be subject to such examination.
Mr. Nekula said there was an uneven distribution of profit between farmers, producers and traders, with margins being especially high among the latter.
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04/13/2022
The minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, says that he recommends people to continue wearing respirators on public transport and in places where there is a large number of people. The obligation to use a respirator on public transport is set to end in the Czech Republic on Thursday.
Announcing the change on Sunday, Mr. Válek referred to the falling weekly Covid-19 case incidence rate and the improving situation in hospitals.
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04/13/2022
Some 4,034 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Tuesday. This was the lowest figure recorded on a weekday so far this year and continues a trend of falling numbers that began in February. There were 782 repeat infections.
The seven-day case incidence rate was also down on Tuesday, at 251 per 100,000 of the population. Prague has the highest such rate in the country, at 403.
A total of 1,362 people were hospitalised with Covid, compared to 1,810 a week earlier.
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