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08/12/2020
Despite one of the players of Slavia Prague testing positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus last week, the Czech top-flight football team could continue training for next season. The director of Prague’s Hygienic Office, Zdeňka Jágrová, told the Czech News Agency that those players who test negative could realistically continue to train, if they do so in the same small groups. The decision depends on how many have the infection. The team is set to be tested for the virus on Friday, she said.
The hygienist confirmed that the infected player has not been in contact with the other players for a week and that he was immediately isolated after showing symptoms of the coronavirus.
Due to the COVID-19 infection, Slavia was forced to end its training camp in Austria on Tuesday and the team has since returned to the Czech Republic.
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08/12/2020
The net profits of one of the world’s largest free antivirus software providers, Avast, grew by USD 169,8 million, some 14.5 percent, in the first half of 2020, the Czech News Agency reports citing the company’s press release.
The number of Avast users who have chosen to opt in to the company’s paid protection services rose by 5.1 percent in the same period as the trend of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic led to an increase in demand for Avast’s portfolio of products, including paid antivirus software. However, the vast majority of Avast users continue to use the company’s free antivirus.
Avast CEO Ondřej Vlček stated that an organic growth in profits is expected for the whole 2020 fiscal year in the upper-middle range of single digit numbers.
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08/12/2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with representatives of five Czech and American technology companies at the American Embassy in Prague on Wednesday morning. The talks revolved around global cyber security and economic development, the Czech News Agency reports.
From the Czech side, the meeting was attended by Avast CTO Michal Pěchouček, the general manager of Cisco in Czech Republic Michal Strachník, Milena Jabůrková from IBM, the chairman of the board of the software and electronic hardware company Y Soft Václav Muchna and Lubo Smid, the director of software design company STRV.
Cyber security, one of the main themes of Secretary Pompeo’s visit, will also be discussed later in the day when he meets with Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
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08/12/2020
The 46th Uherské Hradiště Film School is set to close on Wednesday evening with the world premiere of Shadow Country by Czech director Bohdan Sláma. The film traces life in a village on the Czech-Austrian border between the late 1930s and early 1950s and was partly inspired by a massacre of ethnic Germans in South Bohemia shortly after the end of the war.
This year’s edition of the Uherské Hradiště was delayed and shortened because of the Covid-19 situation.
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08/12/2020
The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, held talks with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and spoke to the Senate on Wednesday as part of his visit to the Czech Republic. After his meeting with the prime minister, Mr. Pompeo said that Russia is “trying to destroy [Western] democracies and break [the NATO] alliance”. Meanwhile, in his Senate address, the US secretary of state criticised China and called it a threat to the Czech Republic.
Speaking at a press conference earlier on Wednesday, Mr. Pompeo warned Czechia that entering into partnership with Russian or Chinese state companies when constructing the new bloc of the Dukovany nuclear power plant would “weaken [Czech] national security”.
In his address to the Czech Senate, Mr. Pompeo said that the Chinese Communist Party is carrying out influence operations aimed at stealing industrial know-how and praised the speaker of the upper-house Miloš Vystrčil for preparing a visit to Taiwan despite Chinese criticism.
Mr. Pompeo will be meeting with President Miloš Zeman later on Wednesday.
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08/11/2020
The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and his Czech counterpart, Tomáš Petříček, commemorated the liberation of West Bohemia in May 1945 by the American Army in a ceremony in Plzeň on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Pompeo had been due to attend a similar event on the 75th anniversary of liberation three months ago but could not attend because of the coronavirus situation.
The two foreign policy chiefs laid wreathes at the Thanks, America! monument in Plzeň and Mr. Pompeo made a short address. They later visited the brewery where Pilsner Urquell is made.
The event came on the first day of a two-day visit to the Czech Republic. On Wednesday Mr. Pompeo is due to meet Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and President Miloš Zeman and deliver a speech in the Senate. The following morning, Pompeo will begin a tour of other Central European countries, including Slovenia, Austria and Poland.
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08/11/2020
A team of over two dozen Czech fire officers specialised in rescue work has returned from Lebanon, where they were helping in the search for victims of a devastating blast in Beirut last week. The first part of the Czech group, which included dog handlers, landed at Prague’s Kbely airfield, on Tuesday. The members of the Czech team will now go into quarantine for two weeks.
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08/11/2020
A man charged with setting fire to an apartment, causing the deaths of 11 people, has been remanded in custody by a court in Karviná in the Moravian-Silesian Region. The accused, who himself sustained burns while setting the flat ablaze on Saturday, was taken from hospital to court by an armed police escort on Tuesday. The 54-year-old has confessed to the crime, which saw the highest number of deaths in a fire since the foundation of the independent Czech Republic.
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08/11/2020
Prague’s Municipal Library is increasing its range of e-books after a fourfold increase in the downloading of such titles in March, when the country went into coronavirus lockdown, Czech Television reported on Tuesday. The library acquired more than twice as many e-books in the second quarter of 2020 as in the same period last year.
Karel Capek’s play The White Disease was the most downloaded title during the state of emergency, library officials said.
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08/11/2020
World doubles number two Barbora Strýcová has become the second Czech tennis player to say they will not take part in this year’s US Open because of the coronavirus situation. Last week Barbora Krejčíková announced that she would not be going to New York for the Grand Slam tournament. A number of other players from around the world have also said they will not be competing in the US Open, which is due to get underway at the end of August.
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