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05/19/2020
The Czech Republic plans to open the vast majority of its border crossings on May 26, the minister of the interior, Jan Hamáček, said on Tuesday. Mr. Hamáček said the current fixed border checks would give way to random checks carried out by the police at some distance from the border.
Virtually all border crossings with the exception of ones on hiking trails will reopen, the minister said.
Mr. Hamáček had previously said that the presentation of a negative Covid-19 test would still be required of anybody entering the country.
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05/19/2020
The foreign ministers of the Czech Republic and Austria have agreed to allow free movement of people between the two states from mid-June. The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Tomáš Petříček, made the announcement on Tuesday after speaking to his Austrian and Slovak counterparts. Talks on free movement between the Czech Republic and Slovakia will continue, Mr. Petříček said, adding that similar negotiations with the Hungarian government were planned.
The news means that people who cross the Czech-Austrian border will not need to enter quarantine or produce a negative Covid-19 test. The agreement still needs to be ratified at government level, Mr. Petříček said.
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05/19/2020
A player at Slavia Prague football club has tested positive for Covid-19, a club official announced. Slavia, who are reigning Czech champions, were due to play a warm-up game against Jihlava on Tuesday but it has now been cancelled.
Slavia will now await instructions from state hygiene officials. Under a plan to restart the domestic league, such officials can put a single player in quarantine or order an entire squad to stay home.
Top flight club Mladá Boleslav also have one player with Covid-19. The Czech top division is due to restart this coming Saturday, with Slavia due to face Mladá Boleslav three days later.
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05/19/2020
One-hundred and 11 new cases of Covid-19 were detected in the Czech Republic on Monday, the biggest one-day increase since April 21. It was the first time that 100 or more fresh cases were recorded on a single day in May.
No deaths with the coronavirus were registered in the Czech Republic on Monday. As of Tuesday at 2 pm the total number of fatalities had reached 301.
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05/19/2020
Some 53 employees at the Darkov mine in Karviná in the Moravian Silesian Region have contracted Covid-19, Czech Radio reported on Tuesday. A spokesperson for the regional hygiene office in Ostrava said that hundreds of samples had been taken from workers at the mine on Monday night and had not yet been processed.
After the first 11 cases of the coronavirus were registered at the mine on Friday operators OKD ordered tests on nearly 900 employees among a total of 1,800.
An OKD representative said none of the cases to date had been serious. The mine is continuing to operate as usual and strict hygiene conditions are in place.
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05/19/2020
It should be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with temperatures of up to 18 degrees Celsius. More cloudy weather is expected through to the start of next week.
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05/19/2020
The government on Monday eased the regulation which obliges people to wear face masks in public. As of Tuesday, May 19, people working in intensely hot environments, as well as office workers will not have to wear masks at the workplace if they observe the social distancing requirements, i.e. maintaining a two metre distance from each other.
Face masks will not be obligatory outdoors after May 25 although people will be required to wear them in shops and institutions and closed public spaces with a high risk of transmission such as public transport.
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05/19/2020
The government is planning to purchase 3.7 billion crowns worth of medical equipment and protective gear for the country’s State Material Reserves in preparation for a potential second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček told journalists after Monday’s cabinet session.
Individual ministries have been asked to state their requests for protective equipment by June 8. Suppliers will be selected via open tenders according to the Public Procurement Act.
In the first wave of the pandemic the government had inadequate material reserves and the Health Ministry came under fire for purchasing severely overpriced protective gear in an effort to supply hospitals with basic necessities such as face masks and disinfectant.
Individual purchases are now being checked by the Supreme Audit Office.
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05/18/2020
The government is planning to ease restrictions on the country’s borders as of May 26, Czech Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček tweeted following Monday’s cabinet session. Mr. Hamáček said that as of that date it would be possible to enter or leave the country via a larger number of crossing points and controls would be conducted on a random basis. Details of the arrangement are to be settled and released next week.
Deputy Health Minister Roman Prymula, who has led the fight against the coronavirus epidemic in the Czech Republic, said on Monday he would support the lifting of border restrictions with Austria and Slovakia in the near future. He said easing travel to Germany and Poland was problematic since both countries’ border regions still present a risk of importing the spread of coronavirus to the Czech Republic.
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05/18/2020
Tuesday should be clear to partly cloudy with day temperature between 21 and 25 degrees Celsius.
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