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05/31/2020
The massive decline in the number of tourists visiting Prague this year as a result of coronavirus border restrictions will be felt by the whole country with many businesses in the service sector also being dependent on tourism, the Prague Councillor for Culture and Tourism Hana Třeštíková told Czech Radio’s news site iRozhlas.cz in an interview published on Sunday.
She said the real size of the losses caused by the pandemic will be counted in the autumn of this year, but she also stressed the positive fact that no large cultural institution has thus far been forced to close.
Ms Třeštíková also said that the sudden crash in tourism could be used as an opportunity to reform some of the tourist locations in Prague, removing what has been called the “visual smog” in the capital, such as the many Thai massage parlours.
Earlier this week, Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib posted on his Facebook account that the city had created a new “Manual for a Cultivated Prague”, which delineates visual esthetic practices for the capital’s businesses.
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05/31/2020
The International Roma festival Khamoro, which would normally have started this Sunday, had to be called off due to the threat of the COVID-19 coronavirus. However, organisers say that individual events will be taking place from June to December 2020.
The first of these is a visual exhibition by the artist Emília Rigová in the ArtivistLab gallery in Prague. The exhibit presents a project on which Rigová began to work during her stint in New York two years ago. It is partly focused on raising the profile of Romani culture or searching for its aspects in non-Roma majority culture.
Prague has hosted the Khamoro festival since 1999. It has regularly attracted around 10,000 visitors in recent years and includes Romani musicians, singers and dancers.
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05/31/2020
There were 34 new registered cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in the Czech Republic on Saturday, the lowest rise in nine days. No casualties were reported. In total there have been 9,233 infections in the country over the past three months, since the first infection case was registered in the country. However, the amount of tests carried out, some 2,796, was the lowest since March 23.
A large segment of new infections was registered around the Darkov Mine complex, which has been declared one of the hotspots of the epidemic in the country.
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05/31/2020
The body of a four-month-old baby boy was discovered after a two-day-long police search in the Central Bohemian village of Hořín. The search began on Friday after the mother called police saying she had lost the baby and the carriage in the village park. Police used a helicopter and drones in their search. The exact location of the discovery has not yet been released to the public.
An autopsy found that no outside actor had been responsible for the baby’s death. Police spokeswoman Lucie Nováková said further information will be released on Monday.
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05/30/2020
The Prague Zoo opened its new Darwin Crater pavilion on Saturday which features more than 20 animal species from the Australian fauna. However, the pavilion proved so popular that the Zoo was forced to close it just hours later as the allowed quota of 8,500 visitors, put in place as a coronavirus precaution, was already filled up. Prague Zoo director, said that the zoo had expected a large number of visitors and that the limitation measures are an unfortunate reality. Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib said that the city is currently negotiating a close to the capacity limitation.
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05/30/2020
The Czech Republic’s contribution to the NATO budget could increase by CZK 43.9 billion starting from 2021. The payment rise will be discussed by the government on Monday, Jakub Fajnor from the Defence Ministry Press Department told the Czech News Agency.
The increased contribution is based around last year’s London Summit meeting between NATO member states, where the allies agreed to raise the portion of money paid by European members while decreasing payments made by the United States.
The Czech Republic currently contributes just under 1 percent of the total NATO budget. If the expected rise were put in place, this contribution would rise to 1.0558 percent from 2021. Most of the extra money would come from the Ministry of Defence, while a further CZK 5 million would be contributed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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05/30/2020
Sunday will see heavy clouds and rain across the whole country. Temperatures are expected to lie between 11 to 18 degrees Celsius, with warmer patches in the north of the country.
From Monday, a spell of warmer and sunnier weather is set to arrive.
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05/30/2020
In the first four months of 2020, doctors have already issued more medical cannabis prescriptions than in the whole of 2019, some 15.5 kilograms in total, according to news site Seznam Zpravy which cited the newly released State Agency for Medical Cannabis statistics.
The increase is largely down to increased willingness of health insurance companies to pay for such prescriptions, Radovan Hřib, the head of the pain management center at the University Hospital at St. Anne’s in Brno told Seznam.
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05/30/2020
The profits of one of the largest Czech conglomerates Agrofert, which operates mainly in the agricultural and chemical business sectors, tripled last year by CZK 4.54 billion according to its spokesman Karel Hanzelka.
The increase is down to profits in the chemical industry, Hanzelka said. Total profits before taxation last year were CZK 5.94 billion.
The conglomerate employs 33,000 workers in total, of which 22,000 thousand are employed in the Czech Republic. It is mainly known among the larger public as the company founded by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
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05/30/2020
Businesses in the Czech Republic will be forced to lay off workers and unemployment will grow, due to an insufficient amount of relief measures being passed through Parliament, the Czech Chamber of Industry informed on Friday.
According to the chamber, it was an error that the lower-house did not pass further relief measures suggested by opposition members of the Chamber of Deputies. It says that there are now holes in the safety net, which will keep some businesses unable to ask for financial support and thus fail.
The chamber demanded that aid would also be but in place for large companies and that a possible decline in wages be adjusted.
Labour Minister Jana Maláčová said that the ceiling of help to companies employing up to 50 workers had been a necessary compromise.
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