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09/14/2020
Over 100 people at a sanatorium at Holice in the Pardubice Region have contracted Covid-19. One-hundred and two people, both clients and employees, at the private facility have tested positive for the coronavirus, the regional governor said on Sunday evening.
The first case at the sanatorium was discovered on Thursday. While the vast majority of people connected to the site have caught it, none of the cases are serious.
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09/13/2020
The Czech Republic is experiencing a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, says the government’s commissioner for science and medical research, Roman Prymula. Speaking on Czech Television on Sunday, Mr. Pyrula said that within two or three weeks the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital would reach the same level as was seen in the spring, when the pandemic first hit the country.
The epidemiologist said that if the virus continued to spread as explosively as it has recently, Czech hospitals’ ability to deal with Covid patients could be exceeded; if measures were not taken, hospitals could reach the limits of their capacity at the end of October, he said.
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09/13/2020
People will be able to pay their final respects to Jiří Menzel at the Prague venue Rudolfinum next Friday, his widow Olga has announced. The Oscar-winning film director died last weekend at the age of 82.
Menzel’s funeral will be a private family affair but a book of condolences will be available for the public to sign between 10 am and 6 pm on Friday at the Rudolfinum, where there will also be an exception relating to his much-loved film Capricious Summer. A concert of music by the director’s favourite composer Mozart will be held at the Rudolfinum in the evening, as part of the festival Dvořák‘s Prague.
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09/13/2020
This year’s June-August period was the wettest in the Czech Republic in the last decade, according to data released by the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute. June was particularly rainy, with almost twice the long-term average precipitation for the time of year.
In addition, the three-month period was cooler than in the previous three years.
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09/13/2020
It should be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Monday, with temperatures of up to 27 degrees Celsius. The current warm weather should give way to daytime highs in the mid teens Celsius toward the end of the week.
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09/13/2020
The minister of finance, Alena Schillerová of government leaders ANO, wants to do away with what is called the “guaranteed salary”, possibly putting the minority coalition government’s future at risk, Czech Television reported. Ms. Schillerová says the system, under which employees are assured of a certain pay level based on their educational attainment, represents a burden on employers and should be discontinued from January.
However, the Communist Party, which keeps the ANO-Social Democrats coalition in power by supporting it on key votes, insists that the guaranteed salary remain in place. An MP for the Communists, Miloslava Vostrá, told Czech TV that removing it could represent a problem for her party and may cause them to withdraw their support.
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09/13/2020
Some 1,541 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Saturday, the highest number for a single day since the pandemic began and by some distance the most recorded at the weekend, when considerably fewer tests were carried out in the past.
It was the fifth day in succession that over 1,000 cases were detected in the country. The number of people known to have the virus at present is 13,739, which is also the largest number since the first cases were detected.
There were just under 300 people in hospital with Covid-19 in the Czech Republic on Saturday, with 69 of them in a serious condition.
On Friday five other districts, most in Central Bohemia joined Prague in being categorised as medium risk on a national “Covid map”.
Since Thursday it has been compulsory to cover one’s mouth and nose indoors in the whole of the Czech Republic.
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09/13/2020
The Czech Republic’s top public health official, Jarmila Rážová, has attributed the ongoing spike in known Covid-19 cases in the country to the fact two weeks have passed since people returned from holidays and normal life resumed with the start of the school year. In an interview with news site iRozhlas.cz, Ms. Rážová said an increase in testing should also be borne in mind: 10 days ago there were 400 tests per 100,000 people but the figure now stands at 700.
The country’s chief hygiene officer conceded that the authorities in Prague were struggling to reach those who had been in contact with infected persons within 24 hours, adding that it would take some time for the latest restrictions aimed at containing the virus to make themselves felt.
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09/13/2020
Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins is set to play Sir Nicholas Winton in a new biographical film entitled One Life, a number of news outlets have reported. On the eve of World War II Winton saved the lives of 669 mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia by organising train transports out of Prague and securing places for them to stay in the United Kingdom.
Sir Nicholas, who was in his late 20s when he carried out this great act of humanity, will be played in his younger years by another British actor, Johnny Flynn.
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09/12/2020
The percentage of Czechs who say they are satisfied by their jobs has increased since the coronavirus crisis began, suggests a new survey. Three-quarters of respondents in a study carried out in the summer by Grafton Recruitment said they were content in their employment, a rise of 3 percent on a similar survey conducted last year.
This increase has been attributed to increased uncertainty on the labour market, as employees report feeling less frustrated by a lack of opportunities for career growth or their pay level. They are also less inclined to seek a change in the context of the crisis.
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