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05/08/2020
The Czech Republic had 8,031 confirmed cases of coronavirus on Friday morning, with 57 new cases reported on Thursday. 270 people have died and 4,371 have recovered from the disease. 275 people are currently hospitalized, 52 of them in serious condition. Close to 287,000 people have been tested for the virus to date.
The highest number of cases is reported in Prague –now at 1,800. South Bohemia is the least infected region with only 179 confirmed cases.
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05/08/2020
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has spoken out in defence of Czech politicians who are under police protection after making decisions that have angered Russia.
Secretary General Stoltenberg told Czech Television that NATO strongly rejected attempts to intimidate democratically elected politicians.
"Any attempt to use force or intimidate elected representatives is an attempt to undermine democracy as such and we must make it emphatically clear that this is unacceptable,” Stoltenberg said.
Three Prague mayors have been given police protection over the removal of a monument to Red Army commander Ivan Konev in Prague 6, the construction of one to the Vlasov army on the outskirts of the city and the renaming of a street in honour of the slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
The incidents have soured Czech-Russian relations and cast a shadow over the end-of-war celebrations.
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05/07/2020
One of the country’s largest bus transport services, RegioJet, has announced it plans to restart its services offering lines to Dresden and Berlin from next Wednesday, the Czech News Agency reports.
The company has begun selling tickets and says it also hopes to reopen the bus line between Prague and Vienna starting Monday, May 18.
Other bus transport providers have not yet specified when they intend to reopen their foreign transport services, with the lifting of restrictions abroad playing a key role in the decision.
Government measures technically enable buslines to restart their service from next Monday.
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05/07/2020
The government approved a new draft law on emergency measures, which expands and clarifies the powers of the Ministry of Health in relation to the coronavirus pandemic, Interior Minister Jan Hamáček said on Thursday.
This includes enabling the Health Ministry to enact emergency measures that receive government approval and are rooted in warnings from epidemiologists.
The legislation, which would be in place for a limited one year period, could also enable the government to keep certain coronavirus measures in place even after the state of emergency officially ends on May 17. The government’s plan counts on the gradual easing of restrictions in the service sector until May 25, a week longer than the state of emergency deadline.
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05/07/2020
Temperatures are set to rise on Friday, reaching 24 degrees Celsius in the west of the country. In Moravia and Silesia it is likely to be 3 degrees cooler. Skies will remain partly cloudy with no rain.
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05/07/2020
The Czech Foreign Ministry will strengthen security measures at its embassy in Moscow, Czech Television reported on Thursday.
According to the ministry, the measures are part of a long-term plan, which has nothing to do with the current tension in Czech-Russian relations.
The measures include perimeter protection and the control of entry into the embassy, ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Štíchová told the Czech News Agency.
Last month, demonstrations led by a Russian nationalist group took place in front of the embassy, while in front of the General Consulate in St. Petersburg another group lit a smoke bomb.
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05/07/2020
The Czech Republic’s shift towards smart quarantine is a key project and will enable the country to end its statewide measures, Deputy Health Minister Roman Prymula said on Thursday. Instead, focus is to be shifted to local outbreaks of the COVID-19 coronavirus, based around swift detection and isolation of infected citizens.
To boost the effectiveness of smart quarantine, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch urged Czechs to download the app eRouška, which creates so-called “memory maps” based on mobile phone tracking and identifies high risk areas.
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05/07/2020
If the situation surrounding the coronavirus pandemic continues to develop favourably, the obligatory wearing of face masks will be lifted in mid-June, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch confirmed to Czech Television on Thursday.
However, this would not mean a total end to compulsory face mask wearing, with the rule likely to still be in place when people enter areas of high concentration, such as public transport or shopping malls.
The health minister's statement contradicts an earlier tweet by Central Crisis Staff member Roman Šmucler, who tweeted on Wednesday that facemask wearing would end together with the state of emergency on May 17.
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05/07/2020
The current ban on visits to care homes and hospitals is to be lifted from May 25, two weeks earlier than initially planned, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch tweeted on Thursday. Visits will be possible if hygiene rules are maintained.
The ban has been in place for 11 weeks. It was initiated to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in areas with potentially high-risk patients.
Gatherings of up to 500 people are also to be allowed from May 25, the Health Minister said.
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05/07/2020
There were 254,000 people without work in the Czech Republic in April, the highest level since March 2018, according to the Czech Labour Office. However, Labour Minister Jana Maláčová says the data is still favourable. Unemployment rose by 0.4 percent in April to a total of 3.4 percent.
Most of those recently rendered unemployed are from the culinary, hotel and sales sectors.
There are currently 330,000 vacant jobs in the country, statistics show.
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