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08/24/2020
Tuesday should be cool with mostly clear skies throughout the country. Average daytime highs are expected to range from 22 to 26 degrees Celsius.
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08/24/2020
Ministry of Health data show 135 people in the Czech Republic tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Sunday. While that number is the lowest of the past week, it is also the highest for a Sunday since June.
The increase in coronavirus cases exceeded 500 on Friday, a daily record. But the rise in reported cases stems from increased testing, not an outbreak or uptick, the Health Ministry says.
Last week most new cases were recorded in and around Kolín, central Bohemia; in Uherské Hradiště, southern Moravia; and in Prague.
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08/24/2020
Two Prague football clubs – arch-rivals Sparta and Slavia – enjoyed victories this weekend in the first matches of the Czech First League’s 2020/2021 season.
Reigning champions Slavia soundly defeated SK Dynamo České Budějovice on Sunday, by a score of 6-0, propelled by a hat trick from striker Stanislav Tecl.
Sparta, which had a disappointing season last year, beat Zbrojovka Brno 4-1 on Saturday. The day before, the third first division team from Prague, Bohemians 1905, beat Mladá Boleslav by a score of 4-0.
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08/24/2020
The Czech Republic has removed Spain from its list of “safe” countries to travel to with respect to the coronavirus. An exception is made for the Canary Islands.
As of this Monday, anyone looking to enter the country after having been in Spain therefore will have to present a negative Covid-19 test or go into quarantine for 10 days.
Thus far, Romania is the only other European Union country not on the “safe” travel list. The Czech Republic itself is considered a “risky” destination by the EU member states of Estonia, Finland and Slovenia.
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08/24/2020
Chief epidemiologist Rastislav Maďar has resigned from the Minister of Health’s coronavirus working group following the abrupt cancellation last week of newly announced measures related to containing the spread of the virus.
Maďar had since April led the working group of Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch (ANO), who last Monday announced that wearing facemasks would become mandatory in most public indoor spaces as of September 1.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) later said aspects of the announced measures were inconsistent and incomprehensible, and Vojtěch had to walk them back.
According to the news agency ČTK, Maďar wrote that he was sick of being subject to below-the-belt attacks and had informed the health minister on Friday of his decision to leave the advisory body.
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08/24/2020
This year’s edition of the Art Brut Film Olomouc festival will focus on four Czech figures from a genre also known as ‘outsider art’.
The work of pioneering Art Brut figure and Olomouc local Anna Zemánková is featured on Thursday at the Olomouc Museum of Art café terrace, along with that of sculptor and painter Jan Křížek.
Křížek spent most of his life in France and was active in a Paris surrealist group. Festival guest Martin Řezníček, who directed a documentary on Křížek, will present his film.
The ninth edition of the Art Brut festival will also feature the works of Jan Šimek and the Jindřich Vik.
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08/24/2020
Confidence in the Czech economy rose by 0.3 percentage points month-on-month to 87 points in August. Confidence among entrepreneurs increased but dropped among consumers, according to the latest Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ) data.
The business confidence indicator rose 0.8 pp to 85.5 and the consumer confidence indicator fell 1.6 pp to 94.4, compared to July. In a year-on-year comparison, however, all confidence indicators remain lower due to the coronavirus pandemic and related measures.
Consumers remain concerned about the deterioration of the overall economic situation. Their concerns about their own financial situation and inflation slightly increased, the ČSÚ said.
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08/23/2020
The Czech government aims to extend its “Antivirus” programme supporting businesses impacted by the coronavirus crisis by two to four months, Labour Minister Jana Maláčová (Social Democrats) said on Czech Television on Sunday.
The economic aid package includes a kurzarbeit scheme to try to prevent massive layoffs whereby the state pays the bulk of employees’ salaries under certain circumstances so that entrepreneurs will retain workers.
Trade unionists and businesses alike have been lobbying for its extension beyond the end of August.
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08/23/2020
Scattered light showers are in the forecast for Monday until the afternoon, when the skies are expected to clear. Daytime highs should range from 21 to 25 degrees Celsius.
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08/23/2020
A proposed 6,000 crowns one-off contribution to pensioners may be distributed over many months or paid out by Christmas, Labour Minister Jana Maláčová (Social Democrats) said during a Czech TV debate programme this weekend.
Earlier, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) and Minister of Finance Alena Schillerová (for ANO) had spoken of distributing the one-off contribution for pensioners in full already in August, or a permanent valorisation of 400 to 900 crowns.
Parliamentary budget committee deputy chairman Jan Skopeček of the opposition Civic Democrats characterised the move as pre-election pandering. As of the end of March, the average old-age pension stood at 14,397 crowns.
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