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07/27/2020
Belgium has taken Prague off its list of safe destinations for travel, according to the Czech Embassy in Brussels. Prague, together with the Moravia-Silesia region are now in the orange medium-risk category, which means that visitors to these areas will be required to produce a negative Covid-19 test or go into a two week quarantine upon their return.
The rest of the Czech Republic is still on the green list of travel destinations deemed safe. The country has seen an increase in Covid-19 cases in recent days linked to local outbreaks of the coronavirus.
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07/27/2020
Health Minister Adam Vojtěch on Monday presented a “traffic lights” system based on three levels of measures intended to contain the spread of Covid-19. Mr. Vojtěch said the new system, designed as a pandemic plan, would identify the coronavirus risk in different districts and would spell out specific public health measures as well as instructions to hospitals with regard to readiness for patient influxes.
The districts will be rated according to a number of criteria, among them community transmission numbers. Coronavirus-free areas will be marked white.
Minister Vojtěch said this differentiation was essential due to the fact that the situation now varied radically from one district to another.
A traffic lights system rating the coronavirus risk in individual countries has been in place for some time to help clarify the conditions under which Czechs can travel and under which foreign visitors can enter this country.
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07/27/2020
The three day techno party near Hlaváčkova Lhota in the Benešov region is slowly winding up, with the last 400 or so participants packing up their belongings and gradually leaving the premises. The event was closely monitored by the police, with officers conducting alcohol and drug tests before letting drivers leave the grounds. The event, which started on private property, but spilled over onto neighbouring meadows, sparked numerous protests from the locals, who are demanding compensation. The police also received dozens of complaints with regard to noise pollution.
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07/27/2020
Edita Hrdá is to be the Czech Republic’s next ambassador to the EU. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš told the news site Denik N that the government had approved her for the post late last week. The seasoned diplomat will replace Jakub Durr who is leaving his post prematurely following disagreements with the prime minister over preparations for the Czech Republic’s EU presidency in 2022. Edita Hrdá is due to take up the post on October 1.
Edita Hrdá previously served as Czech ambassador to the United Nations, and managing director for the Americas at the European External Action Service (EEAS). She likewise served as ambassador in the Americas and Caribbean region and held high management posts at the Czech Foreign Ministry.
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07/27/2020
The Czech Republic is set for a week of high temperatures. Forecasters say Tuesday looks likely to be the hottest day of the week with daytime highs reaching up to 34 degrees Celsius.
Štefan Handžák of the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute told news website iDnes.cz that there was also a danger of heavy storms, particularly on Tuesday night.
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07/27/2020
The Czech government is setting up a new central agency to oversee its smart quarantine programme intended to improve the tracing of people who are Covid-19 positive, the government commissioner for science and research in health, Roman Prymula, told Czech Television on Monday.
Mr. Prymula said both the Czech Army and the Ministry of Health would be involved in the programme. The special body overseeing the smart quarantine programme will have eight members, led by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
The Health Ministry has come under fire for allegedly failing to implement the smart quarantine properly and Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček has called for the army to get re-involved in it.
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07/26/2020
The ministry of health said on Sunday evening that there were 3,479 currently known cases of Covid-19 in the Czech Republic. This was a major shift in the official coronavirus statistics as over 5,000 cases had been listed in the morning. At the same time the number of people who have recovered from the virus has jumped from 9,590 to 11,423. Health minister Adam Vojtěch had ordered an audit of the number of patients who no longer had Covid-19.
Ladislav Dušek, director of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics, said some hygiene stations in the regions had recently been busy combatting the epidemic in local outbreaks and updating data on the number of cured patients has not been a priority. The new numbers are the result of back-testing data, Mr. Dušek told Czech Television.
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07/26/2020
The minister of health, Adam Vojtěch, says he will present a system based on three levels of measures intended to contain the spread of Covid-19. Speaking on Czech Television on Sunday, Mr. Vojtěch said the new “traffic light” system would be applied in a region-by-region manner and would spell out specific public health measures and also instructions to hospitals with regard to readiness for patient influxes. It will respond to community transmission numbers, he said.
The system will in effect represent a pandemic plan, which the government has been criticised for lacking.
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07/26/2020
The minister of the interior, Jan Hamáček, says that the national smart quarantine system intended to improve the tracing of people who are Covid-19 positive is not functioning. Speaking on TV channel Prima on Sunday, Mr. Hamáček said that while smart quarantine had worked it was under the Ministry of Defence but had ceased to do so when the Ministry of Health took over. The interior minister said responsibility for the tracking app could be returned to the Ministry of Defence, if its chief agreed and the health minister admitted the failure.
Mr. Hamáček also said that free testing for Covid-19, such as is carried out in neighbouring Germany, was a possibility and should be considered by the government.
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07/26/2020
Czech-produced honey will be in short supply this year, leading to higher prices, Czech Television reported on Sunday. Some beekeepers say it could be the worst season for honey production in this part of the world for half a century after adverse weather conditions led to low levels of nectar in the relevant plants.
Czech producers have warned that higher prices for domestically made honey will lead to increased imports of lower quality honey from abroad. One told Czech Television that unscrupulous “producers” could use prohibited substitute substances in their honey, meaning that Czech officials would have their work cut out carrying out quality inspections.
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