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09/28/2020
Czech hospitals are running out of the drug Remdesivir prescribed for serious cases of Covid-19, Czech Radio reported on Monday citing a source from Prague’s Faculty Hospital.
Health Minister Roman Prymula said the ministry was negotiating a fresh delivery from Gilead Sciences by the end of this week.
The head of the Czech branch of Gilead Sciences Pavel Březina confirmed that the company was trying to secure a delivery for the Czech Republic by the end of September.
There are currently close to 200 Covid-19 patients in serious condition in Czech hospitals.
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09/28/2020
The number of newly-registered Covid-19 cases in the Czech Republic reached 1,305 on Sunday, the highest Sunday figure since the start of the epidemic in March. Last Sunday the number of confirmed cases was 985.
Altogether over 64,000 people have tested Covid-19 positive. Close to 33,000 people are currently fighting the infection. Over 800 people are hospitalized with Covid-19, close to 200 of them are in serious condition. 606 people have died.
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09/28/2020
Mikuláš Minář has resigned as head of the Million Moments for Democracy civic initiative and unveiled plans to establish a political movement with which he will run in the next parliamentary elections.
The civic movement, which he established in 2017, gained considerable support with as many as 250,000 people attending protest rallies against the government of Andrej Babiš last summer.
Minář will be replaced at the head of Million Moments by theology student Benjamin Roll. The civic initiative will remain a protest movement.
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09/28/2020
Several hundred people from around the country joined the annual pilgrimage dedicated to St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech nation, in the town of Stará Boleslav on Monday.
The open air mass celebrated outside the church where the prince was murdered by dissenters, is traditionally the highlight of the celebrations of Czech Statehood Day.
On the day, St Wenceslas's skull is on display in the crypt of the local basilica.
Due to the coronavirus crisis attendance was restricted to 500 people this year and many of the traditional accompanying events had to be cancelled.
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09/27/2020
Monday will be overcast and rainy around the country, with day temperatures between 10 and 14 degrees Celsius.
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09/27/2020
An investigation continues into the poisoning of Becva River with cyanide last week, the worst environmental disaster in over a decade.
The poison killed all living organisms along a 40-km stretch of the river. Fishermen have already netted over 32,000 tons of dead fish from the respective stretch of the river.
Investigators have discovered the mouth of the canal from which cyanide flowed into the river, but the given canal is used by a number of companies which could have been responsible.
The culprit will face a high fine, up to six months in jail and the closure of the respective company.
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09/27/2020
Health Minister Roman Prymula has said group leisure activities will be severely curbed as of next week within new restrictions against the spread of the coronavirus.
He said the authorities were considering capping the number of people in one place to 10 or 20 at the most.
Weddings would likely be limited to a maximum of thirty people, Prymula told Prima TV on Sunday.
He said secondary schools were a currently a major source of infection and would likely be ordered to go online.
An official announcement will be made next Wednesday or Friday, the minister said.
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09/27/2020
The Czech Republic is paying out an increasing number of pensions to people abroad, according to statistics released by the Labour Ministry.
Over the last ten years, their number increased by about two thirds. Last year, the Czech Social Security Administration sent money abroad to about 98,300 pensioners, in 2010 it was about 59,600.
Most pensions went to the country’s former sister state Slovakia, over 35,300, followed by Germany, Poland, Canada, the USA, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, Greece and Bulgaria.
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09/27/2020
The number of newly registered Covid-19 cases on Saturday reached 1,985, down from close to 3,000 on Friday, according to data published by the Health Ministry.
The ctk news agency notes that while weekend numbers are generally lower, due to a lower number of tests, Saturday’s figure is slightly lower than that registered a week ago, when the number of new cases crossed 2,000.
At present 31,800 people are fighting the virus, which is a higher number than the overall number of people cured since the start of the epidemic in March (30,900).
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09/27/2020
The government will propose the abolition of the “super gross” wage, as the base for calculating employee income tax, for a period of two years only, ie. until the end of its term in office, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš told Czech Television.
The statement comes following criticism that the planned tax reform, which will lower income tax for low and medium income groups, is too costly and the state can ill-afford it at the present time.
The proposal for the move to be time-limited originally came from President Miloš Zeman, but experts criticize the idea, saying it will bring confusion into the tax system.
The proposal would see income tax cut from the present 20 percent to 15 percent for low and medium income groups. People with an income of over 139,000 crowns a month would pay a 23 percent tax. If approved, it would cost the state 74 billion crowns annually.
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