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09/18/2020
Hygiene officials have announced new measures aimed at curbing the increasing spread of Covid-19. Starting next Monday, people in Prague and Central Bohemian region will be required to wear a face mask at outdoor events with more than 100 people, health authorities announced on Friday.
The measure will apply to open-air markets and festivals as well as sporting and cultural events. Exceptions will be in place for children under the age of two, actors, musicians and athletes in training.
A ban on visits to hospitals and social facilities, with the exception of underage and terminally ill patients, will come into effect in Prague at 6 p.m. on Friday.
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09/18/2020
Starting this Friday, the Czech Republic is on Slovakia’s "red list" of countries, where there is a high risk of Covid-19 infection. Czechs travelling to Slovakia must present a negative test result no older than 72 hours or go into quarantine for five days upon arrival and then be tested.
There are some exceptions in place, including for cross-border job commuters, students, teachers, health professionals and sportsmen. -
09/18/2020
The government will reactivate the country’s Central Crisis Staff to deal with the coronavirus crisis, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš told the daily Deník on Friday. Mr Babiš said it should work as a platform for communication between the Ministry of Health and the regions.
The prime minister had initially refused to renew the work of the Central Crisis Staff’s work, despite calls from the Social Democrats and most of the opposition parties to do so, arguing that the activity of the Government Council for Health Risks was sufficient.
The government first activated the Central Crisis Staff on March 16, after the outbreak of coronavirus in the country. It is headed by Interior Minister Jan Hamáček. -
09/18/2020
Starting next week, universities in the Czech capital will introduce distance learning, Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib announced on Friday. Mr Hřib said Prague will be moved to the ‘red’ or high-risk category on the national ‘traffic light’ system under which coronavirus risk is assessed.
Mr Hřib made the decision after discussing the situation with hygienists. According to Prague’s chief hygiene officer, Zdeňka Jágrová, there were 29 schools affected by the coronavirus epidemic on Thursday, with around 30 teachers and students testing positive.
As of Friday, older pupils at elementary schools and students at secondary schools throughout the Czech Republic are required to wear face masks.
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09/18/2020
Saturday is expected to be mostly sunny with daytime highs ranging between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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09/18/2020
The 27th edition of Prague film festival Febiofest gets underway on Friday evening. The event will open with a documentary about Karel Gott by Olga Malířová Špátová, which captures the late singer on tour at home and abroad.
This year’s Kristián awards for contribution to cinema, handed out at the opening ceremony, will go to actors Iva Janžurová and Milan Lasica. The festival will also pay a tribute to director Jiří Menzel, who died recently at the age of 82.
The festival was due to take place in the spring but was postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak. Visitors to the festival will be required to wear face masks and observe safe distances in the screening halls.
The popular film showcase will run at Cinema City Slovanský Dům and several other venues in Prague until September 25, before moving on to other towns and cities in the Czech Republic. -
09/18/2020
A memorial event for the Oscar-winning Czech film director Jiří Menzel, who died last weekend at the age of 82, is being held at Prague's Rudolfinum. A book of condolences will be available for the public to sign between 10 am and 6 pm. There is also an exhibition related to his much-loved film Capricious Summer in the park outside the building.
Jiří Menzel was one of the leading figures of the Czech New Wave, alongside directors such as Miloš Forman and Věra Chytilová. He won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1968 with Closely Watched Trains, a World War II drama based on a novel by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. -
09/18/2020
Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček is due to meet with his Greek counterpart, Nikos Dendias, who is on a working visit to Prague on Friday. Among the themes on their agenda will be the strained relations between Greece and Turkey, the Covid-19 pandemic and the devastating fire in Greece’s largest migrant camp of Moria on the island of Lesbos.
The Czech Republic has released nearly CZK 2.6 million as urgent assistance to Greece to deal with the consequences of the devastating fire which had almost completely destroyed the facility, leaving nearly 13,000 people without shelter.
This year the Czech Republic has already provided assistance to Greece related to the Covid-19 pandemic in the amount of CZK 4.4 million, distributed through the MEDEVAC to refugee facilities. It has also provided material assistance in the amount of CZK 2.7 million through the Ministry of the Interior programme Aid in Place. -
09/18/2020
Some 3,130 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Thursday, only one day after the 2,000 mark was surpassed for the first time since the pandemic six and a half months ago. The figure for Thursday was similar to that for the whole of March.
There are now 20,289 active cases of coronavirus in the country, with 413 people in hospital.
Fresh measures aimed at containing the virus come in on Friday. Face masks are now compulsory in the classroom for those above fifth grade in schools and bars around the country must close at midnight.
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09/17/2020
The most critical period as regards the spread of the coronavirus in the Czech Republic is likely to arrive at the turn of October, according to a virtual model presented on Thursday by the head of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics, Ladislav Dušek. After that point measures aimed at containing Covid-19 should mean that numbers fall, he said.
Mr. Dušek said that if the reproduction number remained at the current level of 1.6 then around 60,000 people would catch the virus in the Czech Republic in the course of September.
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