• Covid numbers still growing, number of tests decreasing
    03/20/2022

    The Czech Republic registered 4,784 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday and 779 reinfections, which is over 370 more than on the same day a week ago. Labs in the country only conducted around 13,000 tests on Saturday, which is roughly a third less than on the same day of the previous week. Under 2,000 people are currently hospitalized with Covid and the incidence number is 506 cases per 100,000 people.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Lack of child psychiatrists making itself felt as thousands of children develop mental problems
    03/20/2022

    Thousands of children in the Czech Republic have developed mood swings or depression in the wake of the Covid pandemic, according to the Association of General Practitioners for Children and Adolescents. The association says the problem is exacerbated by the dire lack of child psychiatrists who only cover about 40 percent of the country’s present needs. Children and adolescents often wait months for an appointment. General practitioners are now getting special training on how to recognize mental problems in children and determine appropriate treatment.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Czech Republic to open temporary diplomatic representation in Uzhhorod
    03/20/2022

    The Czech Republic is planning to open a temporary diplomatic representation in Ukraine. Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Smolek told Czech Radio that the ministry wants to open an office in Uzhhorod within two weeks. The location of the office, which is close to the Slovak border, was chosen for security reasons.   Austria and Hungary have also opened diplomatic representations in the city. The Czech deputy foreign minister stressed that the arrangement was temporary and the Czech Embassy would reopen in Kyiv as soon as the situation allowed. He said the same goes for the consulate general in Lviv. Prior to the invasion, the embassy had about twenty diplomats and employees in Kyiv, and around thirty-five at the consulate in Lviv.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Weather forecast
    03/19/2022

    Sunday should be dry, clear and sunny with day temperatures between 7 and 11 degrees Celsius.

  • Police charge two people for supporting Russian aggression in Ukraine
    03/19/2022

    The police have charged two people for publicly supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the news site Denik N, one of them threatened to set fire to a school with Ukrainian refugees in Čelákovice, the second allegedly spraypainted the Z symbol of Russian aggression on the wall of a house in Terezín, where refugees are accommodated. The police are investigating another 30 or so similar cases, after receiving about four hundred complaints.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Prague street artist creates mural in support of Ukraine
    03/19/2022

    The street artist ChemiS has created a new mural in Prague 4, a picture of a child refugee taking shelter under a Ukrainian flag. ChemiS, who spent several days creating the mural with a group of friends, said it reflects his stance to the war in Ukraine and is an appeal for continued solidarity with its people. The Prague-based artist, who has Kazakh roots, is one of the best known names on the Czech graffiti scene. In 2011 he created a mural of Vaclav Havel, shortly after the president’s death, and in 2018 one of the country’s first president, T.G. Masaryk, on the centenary of the birth of Czechoslovakia.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Klaus refuses to return Pushkin Medal over Russian aggression
    03/19/2022

    The former Czech president Václav Klaus has said he sees no reason to return the Pushkin Medal awarded to him in 2007 by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Klaus told the news site Lidovky.cz that he disapproved of cheap Russia-bashing and argued that he had been awarded "a Pushkin Medal, not a Putin medal", a tradition that had moreover been established by Boris Jelcin. Some Pushkin Medal winners have returned the award in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • ANO leader Andrej Babiš released from hospital
    03/19/2022

    The leader of the strongest opposition party ANO and the former prime minister, Andrej Babiš, has been released from hospital where he spent a week, after briefly losing consciousness in the lower house of Parliament. Mr. Babiš, who earlier revealed that he had intestinal obstruction, said he had undergone a series of tests at Prague’s IKEM hospital and would need to return for more to clear up the source of the problem.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Covid numbers up again on Friday
    03/19/2022

    Covid numbers have once again risen in the Czech Republic following a two-day lull, according to data released by the Ministry of Health. Laboratories registered 8,705 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday, which is 350 more than on the same day last week. There were 1,648 reinfections. Meanwhile the number of tests has been consistently dropping. 2,156 people are currently hospitalized with Covid and the incidence number is 506 cases per 100,000 people.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Czech cabinet to debate Polish proposal for peacekeeping mission in Ukraine
    03/19/2022

    Prime Minister Petr Fiala has said the Czech Republic is open to a debate on Poland’s proposal for a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine adding that he would consult the matter with President Zeman and it would be debated at the next session of the cabinet. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday that he would formally table the proposal at next week’s NATO summit. The idea emerged during this week’s visit to Kyiv by the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

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