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03/14/2022
There has been an easing of Covid-19 restrictions in the Czech Republic, with the requirement to wear respirators considerably reduced. From Monday these must only be used on public transport and at health and social facilities.
The minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, said if Covid figures were positive all requirements to wear respirators would come to an end in the course of April.
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03/13/2022
The minister of defence, Jana Černochová, says the Czech Republic has to date supplied arms worth CZK 725 million to Ukraine and plans to send the same amount again to the country, which has been under attack by Russia since February 24.
Ms. Černochová said on Czech Television on Sunday that she would not reveal the exact nature of the military materials but that it would respond to a list of requests sent by the Ukrainian government.
The country’s defence chief also said that her ministry was considering setting up a tent city for refugees; it would accommodate around 400 people and would be run by the army.
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03/13/2022
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, says the country will feel the consequences of Russia’s war on Ukraine for months or even years. Speaking on CNN Prima News on Sunday, the government chief said that Czechs did not need to worry about their own safety in view of the fact the Czech Republic is a member of the EU and NATO. However, they are facing price increases and an influx of refugees, he said, adding that the wave of Ukrainian refugees sparked by Moscow’s attack on the country was the biggest since WWII.
Mr. Fiala said price rises were a direct consequence of Russia’s actions and that the Czech Republic would work with its EU partners to seek a new energy mix. He said 8 percent of the country’s natural gas came from Russia but that amount would need to be reduced in future.
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03/13/2022
Former prime minister Andrej Babiš has been hospitalised in Prague. Mr. Babiš, who is 67, told the radio station Frekvence 1 that he was undergoing a series tests, including X-rays, at the hospital IKEM in a bid to find out what was wrong with him, without giving any further details. He said he had not undergone any kind of surgery.
The billionaire leader of the strongest opposition party, ANO, said he had cancelled all his engagements until at least the middle of next week.
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03/13/2022
Over 81,000 Ukrainian refugees have been registered by the Czech migration police at assistance centres set up for that purpose in all the country’s regions. The total number of special visas handed out to Ukrainians reached more than 142,000 on Saturday, the Minister of the Interior said.
There are now around 200,000 refugees from Russia’s war on Ukraine in the Czech Republic. The Czech News Agency said that state’s standard accommodation capacity was becoming exhausted and some people have been accommodated in sports halls in Prague and Brno.
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03/13/2022
The Czech government is planning to increase the budget of the Ministry of Defence by billions of crowns this year because of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Jan Bartošek of coalition party the Christian Democrats told Czech Television. The extra resources will go toward new weapons, munitions and spare parts for military hardware.
Mr. Bartošek said that Ministry of Defence’s budget be revised upward in the first half of this year.
The minister of finance, Zbyněk Stanjura, said it was clear that government would put more money into defence. While in 2021 the state sent 1.4 percent of GDP on defence, so far this year's expenditures correspond to 1.35 percent of GDP. The current government has, however, committed to spending 2 percent of GDP on the military by 2025.
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03/13/2022
Some 4,422 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Saturday, a fall of 139 on the same day a week earlier. It was the lowest figure for a Saturday for nine weeks. Reinfections stood at 755, which was 70 lower than a week before that. Tests were also down, by one-fifth.
There were 1,944 people in hospital with the coronavirus on Saturday, the first time the figure dipped below 2,000 since January 25.
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03/13/2022
It should be mainly bright in the Czech Republic on Monday, with an average high temperature of 11 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to be overcast.
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03/12/2022
The Czech Republic has appealed for assistance under the EU Civil Protection Mechanism in providing accommodation for 50,000 refugees from Ukraine. The state’s accommodation capacities have already been exhausted and it can only provide refugees with emergency shelter, a spokesperson for the national fire service said on Saturday, adding that the Czech Republic can no longer be a destination country for Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war on their country.
An estimated 200,000 Ukrainian refugees are already in the Czech Republic, with scores of thousands more expected. Around 30 percent of those who have so far registered with the local authorities have been in Prague.
The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, said on Saturday that in view of the refugee situation it would be logical to extend the current state of emergency, which began on March 4. It runs for 30 days, when any prolongation would need to be approved by MPs.
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03/12/2022
The Czech Republic has already granted special visas to over 120,000 Ukrainian refugees, the Ministry of the Interior said on Friday. The minister of the interior, Vit Rakusan, said on Thursday that nearly 200,000 Ukrainians seeking refuge from Russia’s war on their country had already arrived. He later stated that final number could be twice as high.
Prague’s mayor, Zdeněk Hřib, said that that situation in Prague with regard to refugees had become serious. He said available accommodation had been exhausted and that the city had been preparing emergency solutions.
Around half of the Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic are in Prague or the surrounding Central Bohemia Region.
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