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07/16/2020
On Wednesday 134 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in the Czech Republic, the highest daily total since last Friday.
Most new cases stem from a handful of localized outbreaks, such as in the neighbouring districts of Karviná and Frýdek-Místek. To date 13,475 people have been infected with Covid-19 in the country.
Most patients, about 8,500, have fully recovered from the disease, while 355 patients, mostly older people and those with existing health problems have died, according to the Ministry of Health.
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07/15/2020
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) is the sole recipient of the profit of the Agrofert holding, which he placed in trust funds to comply with a law on conflicts of interest nicknamed “Lex Babiš”. According to iRozhlas, this follows from the funds’ statutes, which are not publicly available.
The documents stipulates several situations in which Agrofert would return to Babiš without undue delay, such as his leaving politics. They also include provisions prohibiting him from exercising influence over Agrofert while in office. He has not commented on the server’s findings.
A draft European Commission audit in December found that Babiš continues to wield effective control over Agrofert, whose companies have long received substantial EU and Czech subsidies. Brussels subsequently demanded the return of some EU subsidies and blocked the issuance of others. The Czech government is threatening legal action to get the money flowing again.
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07/15/2020
Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch announced on Wednesday that a subsidy programme for Covid-19 research should launch by the end of August. The initial aim is to disperse about 100 million crowns among numerous short-term medical research projects.
Last year, the Ministry of Health earmarked 1.7 billion crowns towards medical research. Vojtěch said he has asked the Government Council for Science, Research and Innovation to allocate the additional funds.
Vojtěch said that calls will be issued for projects to speed up and improve the diagnostic process of Covid-19, as well as in areas of cell and molecular biology, immunology and virology, among other things.
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07/15/2020
Thursday should be cool and cloudy with occasional light rain throughout the day. Average daytime highs should range from 17 to 19 degrees Celsius.
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07/15/2020
The Czech Republic last year allocated close to 260 million euros to development aid to other countries in 2019, about 15 million euros more than in 2018, but still below the OECD average in terms of percentage of gross national income (GNI).
According to the annual report of the Czech Development Agency, which coordinates foreign aid, the amount was equivalent to about 0.13 percent of gross national income (GNI), The Agency noted that of the forty OECD member countries, the Czech Republic is among the eight that contributes less than 0.2 percent of its GNI, with the OECD average being 0.3 percent.
Much of the Czech aid goes towards disaster prevention, water supply and education projects. In its strategic framework for the period 2020-2030, the Czech Government foresees development aid reaching 0.33 percent of GNI.
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07/15/2020
One person was killed on Tuesday evening in a collision between a passenger train and a freight train near Prague that left up to 35 others were injured.
It is the second deadly train accident in the Czech Republic in a short span. Last week, two trains collided head on in the Karlovy Vary region, killing two people and injuring many more.
According to the emergency services, two people suffered serious injuries in Tuesday’s accident, between the towns of Český Brod and Uvaly, about 30 kilometres from Prague.
Minister of Transport Karel Havlíček said the driver of the CityElefant passenger train had probably disregarded a stop signal when it struck a postal train idling on the track. He died at the scene.
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07/15/2020
Czech tennis star Petra Kvitová has advanced to the finale of the invitation tournament in Berlin. The two-time Wimbledon winner prevailed against Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands on Tuesday, relatively clearly with 6: 3 and 6: 2.
In the final on Wednesday, Kvitová is due to face Jelina Switolina of Ukraine. The tournament is to be played on the lawn of the Steffi Graf stadium in Berlin.
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07/15/2020
The Hospital of Uherské Hradiště in South East Moravia has decided to close its intensive care unit after nine hospital employees and one patient tested positive for COVID-19. Meanwhile, 30 hospital staff members have been asked to quarantine at home and seven patients transferred to the hospitals infections unit. All other care services at the hospital remain in standard operation and intensive care is available at the nearby hospitals in Zlín and Kroměříž, the spokesman for the region’s hospitals Egon Havrlant told Czech Television.
The ICU patient who tested positive was being hospitalised after a leg operation. Following his diagnosis and subsequent wider testing it was found that some nurses and administrative employees had also contracted the disease.
Those patients and members of the hospital staff who came in contact with the infected are set to be re-tested in a few days.
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07/15/2020
Milouš Jakeš, the last general secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia before the Velvet Revolution, has died at the age of 97, news channel Prima News reported on Tuesday stating that his funeral had taken place earlier that day. Seen by many as a symbol of an ageing regime, Jakes was known for his blunt speeches which were satirised by Czechs and Slovaks at the time.
A supporter of the normalisation movement within the Communist Party, Jakeš became general secretary in 1987, a position he held until November 24, 1989, a week after the brutal crackdown on protesters at Prague’s Národní třída which initiated the Velvet Revolution.
Jakeš faced several charges after 1989, including treason for working with the Soviets during the invasion of 1968 and for abusing the border law to shoot citizens trying to escape to the west.
His funeral was held at Prague’s Motol Crematorium.
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07/14/2020
Writer, psychologist and politician Jindřich Kabát, who was Czechoslovak and later Czech minister of culture from 1992 to 1994, died aged 67 on Tuesday, the Czech News Agency reports citing his son Martin.
Kabát was known for mortgaging two listed buildings in the centre of Prague to fund an unsuccessful lottery project called Česká lotynka, which aimed to bring in more financial support to the culture sector.
Aside from his political activity, Kabát was also a lecturer in various schools including Charles University’s faculties of health, philosophy and theology. In the 1980s he taught the psychology of art at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and in the 1990s he was a lecturer at the College of Journalism.
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