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09/04/2020
Germany is considering taking the Czech Republic off its list of safe destinations in connection with the recent spike in Covid-19 cases, Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Smolek told Czech Radio of Friday. If that happens people entering Germany from the Czech Republic will have to go into a 5-day quarantine.
Meanwhile, the Czech Foreign Ministry will reportedly place the Canary Islands in the "high-risk" category of travel destinations, as of September 14th. Croatia will remain in the green “low-risk” category for the time being. Mr. Smolek said that while the number of infections was still high, the measures adopted by the Croat government were clearly effective.
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09/04/2020
Věra Kuberová, the widow of the late Senate speaker Jaroslav Kubera who recently died in office, has refused to accept a state award for her husband from President Miloš Zeman, the ctk news agency reported.
In an interview for the news site Seznam.cz Ms. Kuberová said her husband would not have wished to receive it.
Mr. Kubera clashed with the president over his planned visit to Taiwan and died of a heart attack before he could undertake it. According to his family and co-workers he came under severe pressure from the president and the Chinese embassy in Prague who tried to dissuade him from the trip.
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09/04/2020
The Communist Party, which supports the minority government of ANO and the Social Democrats in office, has asked the government to distance itself from Senate Speaker Miloš Vystrčil’s visit to Taiwan.
The party asked Foreign Minister Tomas Petříček to either declare the visit “null and void“ or resign from office.
The Communists says the government should do this because the visit goes against the country’s foreign policy line, which acknowledges the policy of “One China“, and will damage the interests of the Czech Republic.
Foreign Minister Petříček, who is currently in self-isolation, said the government’s foreign policy line is consistent and he sees no reason to respond to the Communist Party’s appeal.
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09/04/2020
The Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth gets underway on Friday in the south Moravian town, featuring some 300 films from 50 countries.
This year’s 60th edition was originally due to take place at the turn of May and June, but it was posponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The screenings will only be available for registered viewers.
The main theme of this year’s edition is Back to the Future, focusing on sci-fi films for the young, documentaries about science and technologies and films with revolutionary visual effects.
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09/04/2020
The daily increase in coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic has reached a record high for a third day in a row, Ministry of Health data show. Thursday saw 680 new cases, the biggest rise since the pandemic hit the Czech Republic.
Overall, nearly 26,500 COVID-19 cases have been registered in the country, 426 people have died and more than 18,800 recovered. As of Friday morning, 172 people are being treated in hospital for the disease, 40 of them in serious condition.
The Ministry of Health is due to present on Friday an updated regional "traffic light" system mapping infection rates by local districts. The sole region currently rated “orange” -or medium-risk -is Prague.
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09/03/2020
Former Senate chairman Jaroslav Kubera, who died in office, has been posthumously awarded a Taiwanese high honour by President Tsai Ing-wen in recognition of his long-term support for his country.
The Order of Propitious Clouds was received on Kubera’s behalf by his successor, Miloš Vystrčil, who is leading a Czech delegation to Taiwan. Kubera had planned to lead the delegation himself.
After meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu in Taipei on Thursday, Vystrčil said he had invited Taiwanese Parliament Speaker Yu Shyi-kun to Prague.
The trip of the Czech parliamentary delegation, which ends on Friday, has been widely criticized by Beijing, which considers the island a breakaway Chinese province.
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09/03/2020
Friday is expected to be partly cloudy to overcast with daytime highs ranging between 23 and 27 degrees Celsius.
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09/03/2020
Young Czechs consume less alcohol and narcotics and they also smoke less than in previous years, suggest the results of a survey European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) released on Thursday.
According to the study, young people in the Czech Republic tend to spend more time on online communication at the expense of personal contacts with their peers.
At the same time, a growing number of teenagers regularly practice some sport.
The survey also suggests that thanks to modern technologies, parents have greater control over their children.
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09/03/2020
Sales of new passenger cars in the Czech Republic dropped by 25 percent in the past eight months to 131.410 vehicles, according to the latest figures published on Thursday by the Car Importers’ Association.
Demand has been falling since spring, when the anti-coronavirus measures were adopted.
The sales were traditionally dominated by Škoda, which has a 38 percent share of the market, followed by Hyundai and Volkswagen.
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09/03/2020
This year’s August was the eights warmest in Prague since 1775, when the oldest Czech meteorological station at the city’s Klementinum first began keeping records.
The average temperature in the eighth month of the year was 22.1 degrees Celsius, which was 1.8 degrees Celsius warmer than the long-term average for August.
The highest temperature for the month was recorded in 1807, when it reached over 25 degrees Celsius.
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