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07/22/2020
The current number of known coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic now exceeds 5,000 for the first time, according to official Ministry of Health data. The number of new cases rose by 212 on Tuesday to reach 5,046.
Since the beginning of March, when the Covid-19 was first detected in the Czech Republic, 14,324 people have become ill. More than 8,900 of them have already recovered from the disease and another 360 patients with coronavirus have died.
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07/22/2020
The interior and health ministries are to set up a working group to address epidemiological measures during the autumn regional and Senate elections and the possibility of voting for people in quarantine, the former said in a statement. Interior Minister Jan Hamáček told CNN Prima News that if the number of people in quarantine in the autumn were in the order of tens of thousands, the postponement of elections could potentially be discussed.
Mr. Hamáček said on Monday that changes could not be made before the October elections that would allow people in quarantine to vote and at the same time prevent the risk of Covid-19 transmission.
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07/21/2020
People in the Liberec Region will be obliged to wear facemasks in certain places from Friday, due to a rise in the number of detected cases of Covid-19 in the area. Face coverings will be required at hospitals and other medical facilities, pharmacies and some social service facilities, while social workers will have to wear them in the field.
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07/21/2020
Latvia and Estonia have placed the Czech Republic back on their lists of safe countries in terms of the risk of Covid-19 and Czechs can now travel freely to both, the Czech minister of foreign affairs, Tomáš Petříček, said on Tuesday. Mr. Petříček said there were no signs any states were considering classifying the Czech Republic as a risk country.
In the EU Czechs only face restrictions when travelling to Cyprus, where they must show a negative coronavirus test.
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07/21/2020
The Czech footballer Tomáš Souček has joined English Premier League club West Ham United from Slavia Prague. The midfielder has scored three goals for West Ham since signing in January on a loan deal with an option to buy, if the club were not relegated.
The total price the Hammers are paying for Souček is CZK 513 million, which makes him the most expensive signing from the Czech league ever. The record was previously held by Tomáš Rosický, who joined Dortmund from Sparta Prague for CZK 504 million in 2001.
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07/21/2020
It should be mainly sunny in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with daytime highs of up to 23 degrees Celsius. Similar temperatures are expected over the following week, though it will be mainly overcast.
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07/21/2020
A new film about the late Czech dissident-turned-president Václav Havel is set for a gala premiere in Prague on Tuesday evening. The movie, simply entitled Havel, stars Viktor Dvořák as the democracy leader and Anna Geislerová as his wife Olga Havlová.
The biopic, directed by Slávek Horák, is one of the first new Czech films to be released since the coronavirus crisis began and will enter cinema distribution on Thursday.
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07/21/2020
The minister of the interior, Jan Hamáček, says it is not possible to make changes before regional and Senate elections in October that would allow people to vote when in quarantine while also limiting the risk of spreading Covid-19. Mr. Hamáček told iRozhlas.cz that ballot boxes may not be sent to those isolated for health reasons as this could lead to election commission members becoming infected.
Markéta Pekarová Adamová of the opposition TOP 09 party said she had repeatedly advocated for postal voting and that the government should find a way to guarantee citizens the right to vote.
Mr. Hamáček said it was not possible to introduce such legislation by October and that it would not resolve the situation in any case.
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07/21/2020
The Czech Republic will draw EUR 35.7 billion from the European Union budget in the next seven years, following agreement on a huge post-coronavirus recovery package. The figure was revealed by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš after a fourth night of talks in Brussels. In addition the Czech Republic will be able to access up to EUR 15.4 billion in low-interest loans.
Mr. Babiš described the outcome of the EU summit as good for the Czech Republic. He said the flexibility of money transfers between different EU funds would increase compared to the current budget period and that this was crucial for the country.
The Czech Republic stands to receive nearly EUR 4 billion more between 2021 and 2027 than under the present seven-year budget.
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07/21/2020
The head of the Foreign Department of the Office of the President , Rudolf Jindrák, has been approved as the government‘s special envoy for talks with Russia aimed at reducing tension in bilateral relations. Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček said on Monday that he expected the negotiations to cover a wide spectrum of issues, not just the sore points in bilateral relations.
Czech-Russian relations have been increasingly strained in recent months by a the row over the statue of Soviet marshal Ivan Konev, a bogus information plot in which the Czech counter-intelligence service BIS was fed information that a Russian agent had been sent to Prague to kill elected Prague officials and the subsequent mutual expulsion of diplomats.
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