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07/02/2020
OKD will suspend operation at all of its mines in the Karviná region due to a Covid-19 outbreak, Czech Television reported on Thursday.
The mining company decided to take this step after the blanket testing of its employees for coronavirus at the ČSM hard coal mine.
According to preliminary results, some 17 percent of the workers have tested positive to date.
The outbreak of Covid-19 first occurred at the company’s Darkov mine in mid-May.
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07/02/2020
Friday is expected to be cloudy with scattered rain showers and storms. Daytime temperatures will range between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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07/02/2020
The 62nd annual Smetana’s Litomyšl music festival, focusing on opera and instrumental music, gets underway in the east Bohemian town on Thursday evening.
The opening concert will present a selection of Bedřich Smetana’s work, from the symphonic poem Moldau to duets and arias from his most famous operas.
The main festival centre is the Renaissance chateau in Litomyšl, which is the birthplace of Bedřich Smetana.
Among the musicians to perform at this year’s event, which runs until July 12, is Czech pianist Ivo Kahánek and horn player and conductor Radek Baborák.
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07/02/2020
The Ministry of Finance will have to apologize for Czech President Miloš Zeman’s false accusation that the acclaimed Czech writer Ferdinand Peroutka admired Hitler.
The Prague Municipal Court on Thursday ruled in favour of an appeal filed by the writer’s granddaughter Terezie Kaslová against an earlier verdict issued by the Prague 1 District Court.
The case involving the Czech head of state dates back to 2016, when he claimed that Peroutka had penned an article entitled ‘Hitler is a gentleman’.
To this day, neither Prague Castle staff nor historians have managed to find the alleged piece.
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07/02/2020
Temperatures in some parts of the Czech Republic didn’t drop below 20 degrees Celsius during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, making it the country’s first tropical night this year.
The Klementinum in Prague, which is the oldest measuring station in the Czech Republic, recorded 20.7 degrees Celsius.
In most parts of the country, night temperatures ranged between 15 to 19 degrees Celsius.
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07/02/2020
The Czech Republic is the best destination in Europe for manufacturers seeking to scale up their production, according to a study carried out by the agency Cushman & Wakefield.
Globally, the Czech Republic came fourth behind China, the United States, and India, up from fifth place last year.
Among the major contributing factors are the country’s strategic position in the centre of Europe with good transport infrastructure, advanced local businesses, an economic and political environment with a low rate of risk and also moderate labour, energy and development costs, the study suggests.
In terms of the risk rating, the Czech Republic came seventh this year, with Germany being the only European country to outperform it.
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07/02/2020
Several matches in the Czech Republic’s top football league have had to be postponed after three players from Karviná tested positive for Covid-19, the website SeznamZprávy.cz reported on Thursday.
According to Dušan Svoboda, the head of the country’s League Football Association, it is not yet clear whether the whole team will have to go into quarantine.
In such a case, the whole Czech top football league might not be completed. So far, the three matches, which were due to take place this weekend, have been postponed until Wednesday.
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07/02/2020
Wednesday saw 92 new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in the Czech Republic. It is a lower number than over the past week, when nearly every day the amount exceeded three digits. The town of Karviná in the Moravian-Silesian Region remains the area of highest risk with 270 cases per 100,000 people. Nearby Frýdek-Místek is the second largest hotspot with an average of 34 cases per 100,000 people.
According to the latest official data, 12,046 people in the Czech Republic have been infected with COVID-19 of which 349 died. Currently, there are 3,900 individuals battling the disease, while 7,797 have recovered.
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07/02/2020
Prague criminal investigators, who are currently looking into the Stork’s Nest fraud case connected to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš have asked their investigation be extended by two months. The police team was supposed to be finished by the end of June, but now says it needs more time to secure evidence.
Storks Nest is a recreation and hotel complex in Central Bohemia, which asked for CZK 50 million in EU funds to help in its construction. The official owner of the complex was a small company. However, investigators suspect the entity was indirectly connected to the prime minister’s multibillion Agrofert conglomerate and therefore should not have been eligible to the EU grant.
The case was closed for lack of evidence by the main prosecutor last year, but subsequently restarted upon review by Supreme Public Prosecutor Pavel Zeman and the Czech prime minister therefore remains under criminal prosecution.
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07/01/2020
A Czech man, who was a member of the unrecognised Donetsk People’s Republic army from 2015 to 2016, has received a three-year probation with a five year conditional period by the local court in České Budějovice for serving in a foreign armed force. The defendant, who was originally facing a 12-year-long jail term for terrorism, still has the chance to appeal the decision.
Before court proceedings began, the 27-year-old defendant Pavel Kafka said he had gone to the east of Ukraine to help civilians and work in a hospital, because he found it unfair that people there were not receiving help. However, the judge noted that humanitarian relief was already active in the region, for example through the presence of Czech NGO People in Need.
The prosecution argued that Kafka had travelled to Donetsk in order to join a tank unit, where he received training before taking part in combat. Furthermore, it provided witness testimony of his anti-Western feelings and support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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