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08/08/2020
The tenth edition of Prague Pride, a festival celebrating LGBT culture, culminated on Saturday afternoon with a Pride Cruise on the Vltava River. Two rainbow boats set off from the Dvořák embankment in the centre of the city, carrying hundreds of people onboard.
The week-long festival, which traditionally offers over a hundred events, has been affected by coronavirus restrictions, with many events being moved online. The boat trip down the Vltava River has replaced the traditional Prague Pride Parade through the city centre.
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08/08/2020
Several Czech humanitarian organizations have launched collections to help those affected by the explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, which killed at least 130 people and left around 5,000 injured.
People In Need, the largest NGO in Central Europe, has sent CZK 500,000 for the purchase of food, water and medicine. The Catholic charity Caritas Czech Republic has released CZK 300,000 of its own funds, while the Diaconia of the Evangelical Church of Brethren has sent CZK 800,000 to the Lebanese capital.
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08/08/2020
Czech police last year detained 5,677 illegal immigrants , which is 685 more than in the previous year, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday, citing a Ministry of Interior report. It is the highest figure since 2015 and the second highest in the past decade.
Just like in the previous years, Ukrainians comprised the largest group, followed by Moldovans, Vietnamese, Georgians and Russians.
The number of foreigners with temporary or permanent residence in the Czech Republic increased last year by 5,1 percent on the previous year to 595,881, according to the ministry report.
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08/08/2020
Friday saw 323 freshly detected cases of Covid-19 in the Czech Republic, which was the highest one-day rise since April 3, according to Czech Health Ministry statistics. It is also the third highest figure since the outbreak of coronavirus in the country at the start of March.
The total number of known cases of the virus since the start of March stood at 18,060 on Saturday morning. To date 389 people have died with Covid-19 and 12,749 have recovered fro the disease.
At present Frýdek-Místek in the east of the country has the highest incidence, followed by the region of Kolín and Prague. -
08/07/2020
Saturday should be bright and clear with day temperatures 29 and 33 degrees Celsius.
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08/07/2020
The National Budget Council has said the planned increase in pensions and the abolition of the “super gross” wage, which would significantly lower taxes, is imprudent without a clear plan regarding how the government will replace the drop in state revenues. The Council has advised the government to debate such steps only after it has a medium-term strategy on consolidating the country’s finances, which it is due to present to the lower house of Parliament by September 30.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš of ANO has pushed for the ending of the super-gross wage and the reduction of personal income tax to 15 percent. The government also wants to increase pensions by 900 crowns a month next year. The ruling ANO and Social Democrats say that investments in people and projects are the only sensible way to jump-start the economy hit by the coronavirus crisis. However the two parties do not agree on all aspects of the planned reforms.
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08/07/2020
The Ombudsman’s Office has stood up for a blind woman who was turned away by a salesman when she wanted to purchase a washing machine on the argument that she could not read the sales contract.
According to Ombudsman Stanislav Křeček this is a clear case of discrimination on health grounds and the respective store should have been able to provide the service and brief the customer about her rights and obligations verbally.
The store has apologized to the woman and said it is training its sales personnel to deal with such situations.
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08/07/2020
Meteorologists have issued a heat warning for most parts of the Czech Republic over the next two days when temperatures are likely to exceed 31 degrees Celsius.
The warning pertains to the afternoon hours between 12 and 6pm.
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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08/07/2020
A 40-member Czech search and rescue team continues working in the harbour area in Beirut close to the epicentre of Tuesday’s devastating blast. So far they have not come across survivors and their mission is to sift through the debris in search of possible victims.
According to the head of the team, Jiří Čmakal, two of the specially trained dogs being used in the operation cut their paws on broken glass, but were able to continue in their work after getting treated by the team’s doctor.
The Czech rescue team will stay in the city for as long as it is needed.
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08/07/2020
Tourist figures in the second quarter have plummeted, with the Czech capital registering a drop of 96 percent in the number of accommodated foreign visitors, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Friday. The number of domestic visitors to Prague dropped by two thirds.
In the second quarter of this year, 988,000 people used the services of accommodation facilities in the Czech Republic, a year-on-year decrease of 82.9 percent. Accommodation establishments also recorded fewer nights spent by foreign and Czech guests. Foreigners spent 96.2 percent fewer nights in hotels or boarding houses than a year earlier, and Czechs spent almost 67 percent less.
The fall is due to restrictions stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.
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