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09/22/2020
The third edition of Serial Killer, an international competition festival of television and web series, gets underway in Brno on Tuesday.
Due to the coronavirus crisis, most of the screenings have been moved from cinemas to the Internet.
In addition to the traditional sections, such as the competition of series from Central and Eastern Europe, international panorama or web series, this year’s edition will focus on the series produced in the United Kingdom.
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09/22/2020
Germany is likely to place the Czech Republic on the list of states which pose a high risk of COVID-19 infection, Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček told journalists on Tuesday. Czechs travelling to Germany will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test or go into quarantine.
Mr Petříček said the Czech Republic was currently negotiating exceptions, that would include for example cross-border job commuters.
Germany has already placed Prague and the Central Bohemian region, which are one of the main hotspots of Covid19, on its red list of risky travel destinations.
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09/22/2020
The newly appointed health minister, Roman Prymula, has said there are no plans for measures that would negatively affect the economy, even though a lockdown would be the easiest solution in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Prymula made the statement at a press conference following his appointment to office. He said the main priority now was to tackle the problem while keeping the economy running and for primary schools to remain open for as long as possible.
The health minister said there were no immediate plans to impose a state of emergency, although the situation could change in the coming weeks.
In the next few days, the Ministry of Health plans to introduce further restrictions on the opening hours of restaurants and bars, keeping them closed from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. It also wants to limit the number of people at outdoor events to 100, and indoor events to 50.
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09/22/2020
Epidemiologist Roman Prymula has begun serving as minister of health in the Czech government. He was appointed on Monday, just hours after the news that Adam Vojtěch was stepping down from the post after three years.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said that Mr. Prymula would provide crisis management at the Ministry of Health, where he previously served as deputy minister. The 56-year-old headed the Central Crisis Staff in the beginning of the coronavirus crisis and was latterly government commissioner for research in the health sciences.
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09/22/2020
The number of deaths with Covid-19 in the Czech Republic has risen to 522 from the 503 reported on Monday morning, according to official Ministry of Health data issued on Tuesday. Some 1,476 new cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total number of active cases to just under 25,000.
The number of people hospitalised with the coronavirus stands at 494 (up from the 230 seen 12 days earlier), with 101 in a serious condition.
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09/21/2020
In an address to the nation on Monday evening, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš called on Czechs to follow regulations on wearing face masks in order to protect the vulnerable from Covid-19. Mr. Babiš said it had been a mistake to ease measures aimed at containing the virus in the summer, when he had been lulled into a false sense of security by the country’s hitherto success in dealing with it and the atmosphere in society. Unfortunately the epidemic is back, he told TV viewers and radio listeners.
Regarding face masks the PM said nobody enjoyed such restrictions but that masks did not threaten democracy or freedom; rather not wearing them threatens lives, he said.
Mr. Babiš said his government did not wish to impose the kind of restrictions that halted the economy in spring. At the same time it had to place protecting citizens’ lives first and finding the balance between the two was difficult, he said.
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09/21/2020
Very steep rise in medics infected with Covid-19 in Czech Republic
The number of medics infected with Covid-19 in the Czech Republic has risen very sharply. Some 259 doctors had the virus two days ago, compared to only four a month earlier. In the case of nurses the number increased from three to 433 in the same period, according to figures released by the Institute for Health Information and Statistics. One doctor and one nurse have died with the coronavirus in the Czech Republic.
The total number who had caught Covid-19 between the start of the pandemic and September 19 was 590 doctors and 1,165 nurses.
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09/21/2020
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said he expected the new minister of health, Roman Prymula, would provide crisis management at the government department during the coronavirus epidemic.
He also said at a news conference on Monday afternoon that the revived Central Crisis Staff would be a platform for coordination between the state and the regions. It will be headed by the minister of the interior, Jan Hamáček.
The prime minister did not respond to reports that Mr. Vojtěch would become head of the country’s largest health insurer VZP.
Mr. Babiš is due to make a televized address to the nation on Monday night.
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09/21/2020
Krkonoše officials report over 10,000 visitors daily on Sněžka in summer
Officials from the Krkonoše National Park in North Bohemia say that it experienced above average visitor numbers this summer, with records being broken in some spots. One place that was particularly popular was the country’s highest mountain, Sněžka, which saw average daily visitor numbers of over 10,000.
As elsewhere in the country, tourist figures were up because more Czechs than usual vacationed at home in view of the Covid-19 situation.
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09/21/2020
It should be sunny in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, with average temperatures of 24 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to be overcast, with daytime highs falling to around 14 degrees Celsius at the weekend.
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