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08/21/2020
Events are being held in the Czech Republic on Friday marking the 52nd anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops, which began in the early hours August 21, 1968.
The invasion of Warsaw-Pact troops crushed the reform movement known as the Prague Spring and was the start of an occupation that lasted for over two decades. Over 100 people were killed and more than 500 injured in the clash with foreign troops during the first weeks of the invasion.
As every year, a memorial ceremony was held in front of the Czech Radio building on Prague's Vinohradská Street, the scene of some of the bloodiest clashes.
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08/21/2020
Czech Minister of Health, Adam Vojtěch, has cancelled the previously announced measures concerning wearing of face masks in public. Mr Vojtěch made the announcement on Thursday, following a meeting with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
Contrary to the previous announcement, face masks will not be returning to shops, hairdressers and restaurants in September 1.
The wearing of face-masks in schools will be regulated by a four-level "traffic light" system operated by the Ministry of Health and will only be required in districts designated orange, which means a medium degree of coronavirus risk.
Face protection will be mandatory on public transport, in health facilities and voting stations, as well as other public buildings.
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08/20/2020
Senators on Thursday approved a government bill providing special measures for people in quarantine to cast votes in the October Senate and regional elections.
The legislation allows three methods of voting under quarantine, including drive-in voting, the creation of special polling stations, such as at nursing homes, and electoral commissions that would visit people’s homes.
The new measures would only apply to people ordered by a hygiene authority or doctor to stay home during an election. The law has yet to be signed by President Miloš Zeman.
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08/20/2020
Friday is expected to be mostly sunny with daytime highs ranging between 29 and 33 degrees Celsius.
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08/20/2020
Prague will host the 26th General Conference of the International Council of Museums, due to take place in August 2022, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday.
The event, held under the motto “The Power of Museums” is expected to attract more than 4,000 participants, including from 120 countries around the word.
The Czech Republic will be the first country in the former Eastern Bloc to organize the prestigious event.
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08/20/2020
The Czech Ministry of the Environment has launched new conservation projects aimed at saving two critically endangered animal species, the little owl and the ground squirrel.
The ministry aims to expand the habitats of the species, which have been driven to the brink of extinction mainly as a result of intensive farming.
According to biologists from the Czech Academy of Sciences, there are only 100 to 130 pairs of the once widespread little owl in the Czech Republic today. The number of ground squirrels is significantly higher, but they are distributed into isolated colonies.
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08/20/2020
The Czech Environmental Inspectorate has registered over 30 cases of mining of Moldavite, a greenish-brown semi-precious stone, during the first half of 2020. In the same period last year, the Inspectorate saw only 20 some such cases.
Scientists believe the bottle-green gemstones were formed from condensed rock vapours more than 20 million years ago after a meteorite impact. Rich deposits of the stone are scattered over south Bohemia.
Illegal Moldavite hunters are destroying large areas of land by digging deep holes in the ground, some of them over three metres deep.
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08/20/2020
Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček (Social Democrats) is due to unveil a programme of assistance to support Belarusian victims of political repression, following presidential elections there on August 9. The plan is to be presented at a government meeting on Monday.
Mr Petříček met with Belarusian members of U.S. broadcaster Radio Free Europe on Thursday to discuss the possible forms of assistance.
Following that meeting, he said that the Czech Republic was ready to provide financial assistance to help cover legal defence costs, as well as medical and psychological help, for people injured by Belarusian police during the protests after the contested elections.
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08/20/2020
Meteorologists have issued a heat warning for most parts of the Czech Republic for Friday afternoon and evening, when temperatures are likely to exceed 34 degrees Celsius in some places.
The warning is in place from 11 am. until 6 pm.
People are advised to increase their intake of liquids and stay out of the sun as much as possible. There is also a warning for people not to leave children or pets in their cars, even for short periods of time.
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08/20/2020
There were 316 newly detected cases of Covid-19 in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, the fifth highest one-day jump in numbers since the first cases were recorded in the country on March 1. Over 20,000 cases have been registered in total and the number currently affected is 4,778, according to official Ministry of Health data.
Two people died with the coronavirus on Wednesday, bringing the total number of deaths to 404.
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