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09/09/2020
The net profits of one of the Czech Republic’s largest arms manufacturers, Česká Zbrojovka, experienced a year-on-year fall of 23.5 percent in the first-half of 2020. However, the company still registered profits worth CZK 382 million. While revenue and small arms sales actually grew, the fall was caused by the change in currency value, which led to financial losses, the company states in its press release.
Česká Zbrojovka also announced that it intends to offer shares worth CZK 4 billion for sale on the Prague Stock Exchange. The exact date when these shares will become available has not yet been announced and the move first has to be approved by the Czech National Bank.
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09/09/2020
A total of 15 military personel arrived to a pensioners’ home in the town of Humpolec in the Vysočina Region on Wednesday. Their task is to assist in the care for the facilities clients until at least September 23. The pensioners’ home has seen 23 clients and 19 workers contract the COVID-19 coronavirus.
According to the facilities director Petr Vanek, the help is highly necessary as only six healthy employees remain in the afflicted ward.
The soldiers are part of the 42. Mechanised Battalion “Tábor” and the 31. ABC Regiment. They were sent after the facility asked for help on Monday.
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09/09/2020
Face masks are to become compulsory in all inside spaces of buildings throughout the Czech Republic from Thursday, the minister of health, Adam Vojtěch, announced on Wednesday. Mr. Vojtěch said the measure was being introduced in view of the worsening epidemiological situation and that more details would be announced.
Some 1,164 fresh cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Tuesday. This represents a new one-day record and is the first time this figure has surpassed 1,000. The previous record, 796, was recorded on Friday.
According to official Ministry of Health data, 234 people with the virus are currently in hospital, with 62 in a serious condition – the highest number since late April. To date 441 people with the coronavirus have died in the Czech Republic.
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09/09/2020
The Czech footballer Patrik Schick has joined Bayer Leverkusen in the German league from Italian side Roma in a deal worth a reported EUR 26.5 million. Schick, who is 24, spent last season in the Bundesliga on loan at Leipzig, scoring 10 goals as he helped the club reach the semi-finals of the Champions League.
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09/09/2020
Some 1,164 fresh cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Tuesday. This represents a new one-day record and is the first time this figure has surpassed 1,000. The previous record, 796, was recorded on Friday. According to official Ministry of Health data, 234 people with the virus are currently in hospital, with 62 in a serious condition – the highest number since late April. To date 441 people with the coronavirus have died in the Czech Republic.
Prague is one the epicentres of the virus and new measures came into effect in the city on Wednesday. It is now mandatory to wear face masks in shops and shopping centres as well as on public transport, at civil service buildings and at healthcare and social facilities. Bars and restaurants must close at midnight. From next Monday face masks will be compulsory in schools, though not in classrooms.
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09/08/2020
There were 220 newly recorded cases of Covid-19 in Prague in the previous 24-period, the city’s chief hygiene officer, Zdeňka Jágrová, said on Tuesday evening. This was the biggest one-day jump in coronavirus numbers in the Czech capital since the start of the pandemic.
The Prague authorities are now considering introducing stricter regulations in a bid to contain the virus. Following a meeting of Mayor Zdeňek Hřib, other councilors and public health officials on Tuesday it was decided to draw up fresh measures this week.
Ms. Jágrová recently described the coronavirus situation in the city as “alarming”. At that time around 100 new cases were being registered in the capital daily.
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09/08/2020
It should be sunny in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with temperatures of up to 25 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to be overcast, with daytime highs hovering around 20 degrees Celsius.
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09/08/2020
The Prague film festival Febiofest will open with a documentary about Karel Gott, the organisers said on Tuesday. Entitled simply Karel, the film by Olga Malířová Špátová captures the late singer on tour at home and abroad.
The festival was due to take place in the spring but was postponed because of the Covid-19 situation. The organisers have also announced a tribute to director Jiri Menzel, who died at the weekend at the age of 82. Febiofest begins on September 18.
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09/08/2020
Karolína Muchová has been knocked out in the fourth round of tennis’s US Open in New York. The 24-year-old lost 7-5 1-6 4-6 to Viktoria Arazenka of Belarus on Tuesday. She was the last Czech competitor in the Grand Slam tournament.
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09/08/2020
The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, has suggested that the local branch of the World Health Organisation “keep quiet” after it expressed opposition to possible government plans to reduce the tracing of people with Covid-19.
The WHO said on Facebook that stopping tracing those who have been in contact with infected people was not a solution in the fight against the virus, adding that increasing testing capacity was a better idea.
Mr. Babiš said this was the same WHO that had been slow to use the word pandemic and had opposed face masks. He said the Czech Republic had one of the lowest per capita death rates with Covid-19 in Europe.
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