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08/10/2020
Minister of Regional Development Klára Dostálová will suggest the state offer financial support for Czech tour guides, whose revenues have fallen some 90 percent on average during the coronavirus pandemic.
The deferral of social and health insurance payments for self-employed people ends in September. Without state support, most guides will be unable to support themselves, the Association of Guides said earlier in a press release.
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08/10/2020
A lift under construction at Prague's Karlovo Náměstí metro station, to make it more accessible to people with reduced mobility, will be the deepest in the Czech capital.
Work on the elevator, which will descend more than 40 metres, began 18 months ago, but delays have pushed the completion date back to summer 2021, city officials said.
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08/10/2020
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) has condemned the violent crackdown of Belarusian police against peaceful protesters in Minsk following polls showing Aleksandr Lukashenko had been re-elected to a sixth term as president.
Babiš said on Twitter that such actions have no place in modern Europe, and “Belarusian citizens have the right to freedom of speech and democracy”. Most Czech party leaders have expressed similar concerns.
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the presidential elections in Belarus could not be called “free and democratic”, given the arrest of a potential presidential candidate, the subsequent imprisonment of an opposition candidate and that the OSCE Election Observation Mission was not allowed to fully perform its functions.
Lukashenko said later on Monday that the protesters were organised by telephone from the Czech Republic, Poland and Britain, the Belarusian agency BelTA reported. The Belarusian police allegedly used Czech-made flashbangs against the demonstrators. Ministrerof Foreign Affairs Tomáš Petříček said no licence for the export of such grenades was issued.
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08/10/2020
The Czech Federation of Cities and Towns has criticized the government's coronavirus crisis management. In an analysis based on the statements of 19 mayors, it said distrust of the state has developed in municipalities as a result.
Federation chairman František Lukl (non-party) said the governing coalition failed to inform municipalities about the number of infected people in their areas and cut some funds without warning. He has called for the Federation to have a representative on the new coronavirus crisis team.
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08/10/2020
Four people who were injured in Saturday’s fire in an apartment building in the north Moravian town of Bohumín remain in hospital, the Czech News Agency reported on Monday. Two of them are in a serious condition.
The fire broke out in an apartment on the 11th floor of a 13-story building on Saturday afternoon, killing three adults and three children. Another five people jumped out from the 12th floor and died.
Firefighters announced on Sunday that traces of flammable substances were found at the site of the blaze. On Monday, the police filed arson, murder and other charges against a 54-year-old man who is reportedly the former partner of a woman who died in the blaze along with her family.
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08/10/2020
Sunday’s increase in the number of coronavirus cases is the lowest in the past two weeks, at just 122, according to Health Ministry statistics released on Monday. However, lower figures over the past two days are related to the fact that fewer tests are conducted at weekends.
The number of current detected cases increased to 5,081, a record high since the start of the epidemic. The total number of known cases of the virus since the start of March stood at 18,355 on Monday morning. To date 390 people have died with Covid-19 and 12,785 have recovered from the disease.
According to the country’s main hygiene officer, Jarmila Rážová, the situation is not alarming, because the number of people hospitalised with Covid-19 is not increasing.
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08/09/2020
Brad Binder of South Africa has won the Czech Grand Prix at the Moto GP in Brno on Sunday. The rider of the KTM team covered the 22-lap race at the Masaryk Brno in 41 minutes and 38 seconds.
The 25-year-old Binder finished more than five seconds ahead of Franco Morbidelli of Italy. Johann Zarco of France came third.
Italy’s Fabio Quartararo, who currently sits at the top of the MotoGP World Championships standings, finished in the seventh place.
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08/09/2020
As of Monday, the state-owned hard coal mining group OKD will be preparing to resume operation of its coal mines, which were closed down forsix weeks due to the spread of coronavirus infection among the miners. The infection was first registered at the mines in mid-May.
According to the company’s spokesperson, more than 800 employees, who tested positive for Covid-19, have already returned to work.In order to avoid a new wave of contamination, the company will set up four Covid-19 testing centres and employees will be tested every two weeks.
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08/09/2020
An exhibition by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes marking the 70th anniversary of the nation-wide crackdown on Czechoslovakia’s religious orders got underway in the Želiv Monastery on Sunday.
The notorious operations known as Operation K and Operation Ř saw the mass incarceration of monks and nuns and a massive seizure of church property and historical artefacts. The exhibition was launched by a mass celebrated by Cardinal Dominik Duka.
The Monastery in Želiv in the Vysočina region was turned into an internment camp in the 1950s. Among the people who were interned there was Cardinal František Tomášek and Archbishop Karel Otčenášek.
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08/09/2020
Monday is expected to be sunny, with occasional clouds and daytime highs ranging between 27 and 31 degrees Celsius. Meteorologists have warned against heavy storms in the north of the country, which could be accompanied by torrential rain.
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