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08/30/2020
Over 2,000 Covid-19 cases have been detected in the Czech Republic in the past week, the biggest weekly increase on record, according to data released by the Czech Health Ministry.
Although Saturday brought a slight drop to 319 cases, down from 486 on Friday, the fall is being attributed to the lower number of tests conducted at the weekend.
Altogether the country has registered over 24, 000 cases. 17,000 people have fully recovered, 418 have died.
The health authorities upgraded Prague to “medium-risk” on Friday, warning that the situation in the capital is worsening, with signs of community transfers. So far the increase has been driven by local outbreaks of Covid-19.
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08/29/2020
Sunday should be overcast and rainy around the country with day temperatures between 17 and 21 degrees Celsius.
A storm warning is in force for the eastern parts of the country which may be hit by heavy storms and gale-force winds of 110 km per hour.
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08/29/2020
As of Saturday, people arriving in Great Britain from the Czech Republic will have to self-isolate for two weeks. The British government removed the Czech Republic from its list of “safe“ destinations over the growing number of Covid-19 cases. The decision, announced this week, is expected to impact thousands of travellers.
Meanwhile, Hungary has announced that it will close its borders to foreigners for at least a month starting September 1st, in order to curb the spread of Covid-19. This will impact both tourists and companies doing business in the country.
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08/29/2020
President Miloš Zeman was released from Prague’s Military Hospital on Saturday, three days after undergoing emergency surgery on a broken arm, the ctk news agency reported.
The president is aid to be doing well and should recover fully within six to eight weeks.
His planned visit to Moravia on Monday is reported to have been cancelled, on the advice of his chief physician.
Mr. Zeman fell and broke his arm in his home on Tuesday evening. Due to neuropathy in both legs the president is unsteady on his feet.
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08/29/2020
The government has approved a proposal to give pensioners a one-off bonus of 5,000 crowns, in view of higher living costs and additional expenses linked to the coronavirus crisis.
The sum would be added to pensions in December.The bonus would cost the state 15 billion crowns altogether.
The proposal would have to be approved by Parliament and signed by the president. The opposition has criticized the move as an effort to secure pensioners’ votes in October’s regional and Senate elections.
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08/29/2020
The government has approved a proposal for the abolition of the so-called “super gross” wage which would significantly lower people’s taxes.
The proposal would see income tax cut from the present 20 percent to 15 percent for low and medium income groups. People with an income of over 139,000 crowns a month would pay a 23 percent tax.
The super gross wage, which has been the base for calculating employee income tax since 2008, is the sum of an employee’s gross wage plus social and health insurance premiums.
Previous attempts to abolish the super gross wage failed because of the loss to state revenues.
Now the government wants to push it through so as to encourage consumer spending and help rev up the economy post-coronavirus. The fallout to state revenues would be 74 billion crowns.
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08/29/2020
The Speaker of the Czech Senate Miloš Vystrčil has left on a business mission to Taiwan, accompanied by a delegation of 90 people, including Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib, a group of senators, prominent business leaders and academics.
Mr. Vystrčil, who is the second highest official in the land, is to meet with Taiwan’s top officials, including the president, prime minister and members of parliament.
The visit has elicited sharp protests from China and criticism from some officials on the home scene.
Mr. Vystrčil said earlier that the visit would confirm that the Czech Republic had not swerved from its post-1989 ideals of freedom and democracy and would help to revitalize the country’s economy in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
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08/29/2020
Health Minister Adam Vojtěch has warned that Covid-19 numbers will escalate in the coming weeks, urging people to take the recommended precautions seriously.
In an interview for the ctk news agency Vojtěch said that the virus was clearly more infectious in this phase and with the return of children to school after the summer holidays it was inevitable that the number of infected would grow.
He said the government was not planning restrictive measures that would hurt the economy and restrict people’s movement, stressing that it was up to the public to help curb the spread of the virus by being responsible in their behaviour.
As of September 1st Czechs will have to wear face masks on public transport, at Vaclav Havel Airport, at the doctors and in state institutions.
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08/29/2020
Health workers registered 486 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday, the second highest daily increase since the pandemic hit the country in March. The highest increase was last Friday with 503 confirmed cases.
The number of cases detected this week alone has reached 1,800. Altogether the country has registered over 23, 700 cases. 17,000 people have fully recovered, 418 have died.
The health authorities upgraded Prague to “medium-risk” on Friday, warning that the situation in the capital is worsening, with signs of community transfers. So far the increase has been driven by local outbreaks of Covid-19.
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08/28/2020
The Czech Hygiene authorities have warned that the coronavirus situation in Prague is worsening. The Czech capital has been rated "medium-risk" on the traffic lights map denoting the degree of coronavirus risk in individual districts. Health Minister Adam Votěch said that at the present time the health authorities are recommending increased precautions, such as facemasks in schools in the Czech capital, but they may order restrictive measures if the negative trend continues.
As of September 1st Prague residents will have to wear face masks in public transport, at Václav Havel Airport, at the doctors and in public institutions and social services.
The traffic lights map is updated once a week and the situation is assessed on the basis of a number of criteria such as the number of infected per 100,000 inhabitants and community transmissions.
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