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08/04/2020
Junior coalition partners the Social Democrats are in favour of the abolition of what is called the “super-gross wage”, chairman Jan Hamáček said on Tuesday. However, such a move would require the state finding increased revenues elsewhere and the Social Democrats may call for a bank tax. Coalition leaders ANO previously rejected that idea.
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. However, Social Democrats leader Hamáček says this is unrealistic.
The super-gross wage is the sum of an employee’s gross salary, plus social and health insurance premiums. It has been the base for calculating employee income tax since 2008.
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08/04/2020
The total number of known cases of Covid-19 in the Czech Republic has now passed the 17,000 mark. After an increase of 210 on Monday the figure on Tuesday morning was 17,008. The number of current detected cases according to the Ministry of Health is 4,914, which is the highest figure since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country at the start of March.
As of Tuesday morning some 368 people with Covid-19 are known to have died in the Czech Republic.
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08/04/2020
The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, continues to have a decisive influence on companies in the Agrofert group, according to the substantiation of a decision made by the supreme state attorney, Pavel Zeman, the news site Neovliví.cz reported on Tuesday. Last month Mr. Zeman refused to file a suit against Mr. Babiš over alleged conflict of interest stemming from control of media outlets. However, in his legal explanation the supreme state attorney said that a ruling by the Central Bohemian Regional Authority that the prime minister was not in conflict of interest was incorrect.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution in June stating that the Czech PM was in conflict of interest. For his part Mr. Babiš says he placed Agrofert in trusts and no longer controls it.
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08/04/2020
The Prague Hygiene Office is likely to reintroduce compulsory face masks in enclosed spaces in the coming weeks, Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib told journalists following a meeting of the City Council on Monday.
He said the office was waiting for temperatures to fall before making masks compulsory in Prague’s trams and busses, adding that people who were able to tolerate a facemask in the heat were advised to wear one even now in order to help contain the spread of the virus.
Prague has seen a spike in cases in recent days with a number of local outbreaks and the first signs of communal transmission appearing. In 18 percent of the cases registered the source of the infection could not be traced.
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08/04/2020
Norway is considering taking the Czech Republic off its “safe” destinations list and reintroducing a mandatory 10-day quarantine for people coming from the Czech Republic, the ctk news agency reported.
The Czech Foreign Ministry has confirmed the information, which appeared in the Norwegian media on Monday, saying the Norwegian Institute of Public Health had recommended the measure and the Norwegian Ministry of Health would reach a decision on the matter on Friday.
A similar recommendation has been issued with regard to Switzerland and Poland, where the number of coronavirus cases are also on the rise.
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08/03/2020
A study by scientists from Brno’s Mendel University regarding food waste has revealed that people waste far more food than previously thought.
Earlier conclusions based on polls said people in this country throw out approximately 4.5 kilos of food a year. But the team of Brno scientists, who sifted through 900 garbage cans in Brno to get a more accurate picture, say people in the city each waste 37.4 kilos of food a year.
The result is reportedly applicable to the whole of the Czech Republic.
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08/03/2020
Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová has warned against the coronavirus disinformation being spread around Europe.
In an interview for ihned, Ms. Jourova said the various fake news being spread online, such as claims that drinking disinfectant or alcohol were a form of protection against Covid 19 or that washing one’s hands was no good, was a danger to public health.
She particularly warned against the efforts of anti-vaccine activists to put people off getting vaccinated against the coronavirus once a vaccine was available, saying such campaigns were extremely dangerous. Jourova noted that already around 20 percent of Germans said they would refuse such a vaccine.
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08/03/2020
Tuesday should bring overcast skies and rain around the country with day temperatures between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
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08/03/2020
Sunday’s increase in the number of coronavirus cases is the lowest in the past two weeks, at just 102, according to Health Ministry statistics released on Monday. However experts warn that the lower figures over the past two days could be related to the lower number of tests on weekends.
The number of people fighting the disease is now 4,811, a record high since the start of the epidemic. Altogether close to 16, 800 people have been confirmed Covid-19 positive.124 people are currently hospitalized with coronavirus, 22 of them in serious condition. 384 people have died.
The situation is currently worst in the Prachatice region where there are currently 43 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
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08/03/2020
The tenth edition of Prague Pride - a festival celebrating LGBT culture gets underway in the Czech capital on Monday.
The week-long festival traditionally offers over a hundred events, although many of them have had to be moved online this year due to coronavirus restrictions.
The organizers have promised five hours of live broadcasts a day and rainbow-lit buildings throughout the Czech Republic.
The motto of the festival is “Prague Pride connects us LIVE”.
The traditional Prague Pride Parade through the city centre, which is the highlight of the week-long festival, has been replaced by a boat trip down the Vltava River.
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