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08/28/2020
Saturday should be overcast around the country with scattered showers in the north- western parts and heavier rain in Moravia and Silesia. Temperatures will range between 19 and 23 degrees Celsius in the western regions, but could reach 28 degrees in the eastern parts of the country.
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08/28/2020
Meteorologists have warned that heavy storms and torrential rain could cause serious problems in the eastern parts of the country at the weekend. The bad weather, which is expected to bring hailstones and gale-force winds, is expected to hit the region on Saturday and Sunday night, and could cause flash floods in places.
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08/28/2020
EU foreign ministers have compiled a list of Belarusian officials to be hit with sanctions over the country’s rigged elections and brutal crackdown on demonstrators.
At the close of the foreign ministers’ informal two-day summit in Berlin, Czech Foreign Minister Tomas Petříček said the EU’s goal is to help initiate a constructive dialogue between the Belarusian authorities and the opposition leading to free elections in which the people of Belarus could decide about their future. He said the list of officials against whom the sanctions are targeted is not final and could be extended as the situation develops.
Once the list is finalized, the EU member states will need to unanimously approve each individual or organization on it before sanctions can go into effect.
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08/28/2020
The drug Remdesivir, which is used to treat patients with severe cases of Covid-19 infection, will soon be manufactured in the Czech Republic, the news site novinky.cz reported on Friday. The Bohemian company Santiago Chemie has reportedly developed its own technology for the drug’s production.
Remdesivir was originally created and manufactured by the American company Gilead Sciences in 2009. The research team which developed it was led by the Czech researcher Tomáš Cihlář.
Large stocks of the drug Remdesivir were bought up by the US government in early July, and the drug will probably not be available to the rest of the world until October. The Czech Republic previously received supplies of the drug for forty people. At present it can only acquire it via EU purchases.
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08/28/2020
350 new cases of Covid-19 were detected in the Czech Republic on Thursday, one of the highest daily increases registered since the start of the pandemic.
In the past week alone the health authorities registered 1,400 new cases.
There have been over 23,000 cases since the start of the pandemic.
17,000 people have fully recovered, 418 have died. The increase is still driven by local outbreaks.
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08/28/2020
The Czech Republic should have enough vaccines against the coronavirus to satisfy public demand by the middle of 2021, the government’s commissioner for science and research Roman Prymula said on Thursday.
Mr. Prymula said the country had negotiated the purchase of 3.6 million vaccines from the company AstraZeneca which would cover the needs of health and social workers as well as high risk groups in the first phase of vaccinations.
He said further negotiations were underway to secure enough vaccines for all who wanted them. Prymula said that he expected the situation to improve dramatically in mid-2021, until which time people would simply need to observe the health precautions recommended.
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08/28/2020
The country’s chief hygiene officer, Jarmila Rážová has issued a series of recommendations for Czechs in Croatia and France, in view of the worsening Covid-19 situation in those countries. Although the government on Thursday stopped short of putting the two countries on its list of high-risk states, tourists to these destinations have been warned to take all the recommended precautions against Covid-19, such as wearing face-masks, using hand sanitizers and avoiding enclosed crowded places such as bars and restaurants.
Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Smolek told reporters on Thursday that the two countries would remain on the “green” list at least until September 7, in order to give the thousands of Czech tourists visiting them time to return home without undue complications. There are currently an estimated 60,000 Czech tourists in Croatia. The opposition has criticized the decision as “too benevolent” in view of the health risks.
Meanwhile, Britain on Thursday announced its decision to take the Czech Republic off its list of safe destinations for travel, effective as of Saturday August 29.
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08/27/2020
Britain will take the Czech Republic off its list of safe destinations for travel, effective as of Saturday August 29, Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Smolek told reporters at a press briefing on Thursday. Mr. Smolek said the Czech authorities were still negotiating with Britain to try to get the decision reversed.
The Czech Republic itself is considering taking Croatia off its list of “safe” states for travel. However Mr. Smolek said the decision would be put off at least until September 7.
In the meantime, Czechs in the country have been advised to take all the recommended safety precautions such as wearing face-masks, hand-washing and keeping away from crowded places.
Only Spain and Romania now remain on the list of “high risk” destinations for Czech travellers.
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08/27/2020
Friday should be partly cloudy to overcast with rain in the western parts of the country and day temperatures between 24 and 28 degrees Celsius.
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08/27/2020
President Miloš Zeman, who is in hospital after undergoing emergency surgery on a broken arm on Tuesday night, is reported to be recovering well. According to his spokesman he should be released from hospital at the weekend.
No changes have so far been made to his work schedule. The president was to have left on a tour of South Moravia on Monday.
Zeman, 75, has neuropathy in both legs due to which he is unsteady on his feet.
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