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09/08/2020
The number of road deaths in the Czech Republic in July and August was the lowest in three decades, according to police figures released on Tuesday. Some 98 people died on the country’s roads in this year’s holiday season, a fall of 20 on the same period last year.
The chief of the transport police said that the fall in road deaths may have been linked to the Covid-19 situation: more people vacationed domestically, leading to heavier congestion and lower speeds.
The number of cyclists who died was higher than in July and August 2019.
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09/08/2020
The Czech Republic lost 2:1 to Scotland in a Nations League football game in Olomouc on Monday night. The hosts opened the scoring through Jakub Pešek before the Scots equalised through Lyndon Dykes and Ryan Christie converted a penalty to secure the three points.
The Czech Republic had an entire new and largely untried squad after the players who beat Slovakia at the weekend entered quarantine due to Covid-19 measures.
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09/08/2020
Hygiene stations are considering restricting contact tracing to serious cases of Covid-19 infections only, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch informed the government on Monday. More details are to be released on Friday.
The head of the Prague Hygiene Office Zdenka Jágrova said last week that with the growing number of cases, health officials were finding it increasingly difficult to trace contacts fast enough.
It is also likely that people who wore a respirator at the time when they came into contact with a person confirmed Covid -19 positive, will not be quarantined.
Prague, which is the only region in the country rated „medium-risk“, currently has 72 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Around 100 new cases are confirmed daily.
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09/08/2020
The new Covid-19 vaccine will be made available first to the elderly, people with chronic illnesses and people working on the front lines, such as doctors, nurses, paramedics and people in social services, according to a vaccine strategy published on the Health Ministry’s web page. The second phase of vaccinations should cover government ministers, crisis teams and rescue workers. In the last, third phase, the vaccine will be available to all, however, it will no longer be free of charge. The government is expecting to get vaccines for 3.5 million people at the start of the year.
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09/07/2020
The government will release 3.2 million face masks for polling stations in the upcoming regional and Senate elections, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said after Monday’s cabinet session conducted in the form of a video-conference.
He further said that if the coronavirus situation worsens the government will distribute respirators to senior citizens free of charge via Czech Post.
In the event of interest, it will also distribute respirator to teachers.
The face masks and respirators will come from the country’s national reserves, which count 13 million FFP2 respirators and 75 million face masks.
People who are in quarantine at the time of the elections, scheduled for October 2-3, will be able to vote at drive-through posts.
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09/07/2020
Tuesday should be clear to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 20 and 24 degrees Celsius.
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09/07/2020
The Supreme Audit Office warns that the economic impacts of the coronavirus crisis could threaten the sustainability of public finances.
Expenditures have skyrocketed and, due to the pandemic, state revenues in the first quarter are lower than expected, the office says, adding that the pandemic has confirmed fears that state finances are ill-prepared for a time of crisis, significantly more so than they were in 2008.
The Finance Ministry has rejected the criticism, arguing that no one was prepared for a crisis of such proportions and that the country’s economic and financial results are among the best in the EU.
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09/07/2020
Deputy prime minister Karel Havlíček, who has been working from home in quarantine for the past week, returned to work on Monday after getting the results of a second negative test for Covid-19. The minister, who was in contact with a ministry employee who tested positive, published the news on Twitter.
Two other cabinet ministers – Labour Minister Jana Maláčová and Foreign Affairs Minister Tomas Petříček- likewise spent last week in self-isolation in connection with confirmed Covid-19 cases at their ministries. None of them suffered any symptoms.
Health Minister Adam Vojtěch, who was quarantined in connection with the positive test of the country’s chief hygiene office, also has no symptoms.
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09/07/2020
The Prague Hygiene Office is to get reinforcements from the regions following a spike in cases in recent days, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch announced on Monday.
The capital, which is the sole region in the country to be rated “medium-risk” has close to 6,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with over 100 cases in the past 24 hours.
The Prague Hygiene Office says tracing contacts fast is proving increasingly difficult.
Prague also has the first signs of community transmissions.
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09/07/2020
The share of state employees in the Czech workforce has been steadily growing which is placing a significant burden on public finances, the Supreme Audit Office warns in a report published on Monday. The volume of expenditures on state employees’ salaries has been growing since 2015 and reached 13.5 percent of the state budget last year, when the average salary of an employee on the state payroll increased by almost a tenth in nominal terms to CZK 37,061 per month, the report says.
The number of state employees was the lowest in 2013, when it dropped to just over 413,000. It has since increased by 35,000 to 449,000. Meanwhile, the efficiency of the government sector has not increased but has actually been in decline in recent years, the Supreme Audit Office concludes.
The government wants to freeze the salaries of state employees next year in connection with the coronavirus crisis.
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