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03/10/2020
The National Security Council has decided to close all primary and secondary schools as of Wednesday to try to contain the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced. A ban on public events with over 100 people attending goes into effect on Tuesday evening. Universities have also cancelled classes.
Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch said it is necessary to be take active, exceptional measures at the start of an epidemic. Kindergartens and pre-school will remain open, he said, because young children are far less likely to contract the new coronavirus, and such closure would greatly impact their parents.
Forty people in the Czech Republic have been infected with the new coronavirus, Vojtěch announced earlier. Almost all cases can be traced to the outbreak in Northern Italy. However, among those infected is a Prague taxi driver, who may be a source of community-borne infection.
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03/10/2020
Occasional light rain is in the forecast for Wednesday. Daytime highs should range from 9 to 11 degrees Celsius.
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03/10/2020
Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová is visiting the Czech city of Brno on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Czechoslovak Constitution.
Brno is the seat of the Czech Republic’s Constitutional Court, which will organize a ceremonial gathering in the afternoon.
Čaputová was welcomed by supporters holding red hearts in their hands, some of which read “We love you, Zuzana” in Slovak.
Earlier, she visited Hodonín, the birthplace of the first Czechoslovak president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. She said he was among the greatest statesmen in the countries’ history.
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03/10/2020
China should replace its ambassador to Prague due to a threatening letter sent to Czech authorities, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has said, a position which may further strain bilateral relations.
The Chinese Embassy in Prague had threatened in a letter dated 10 January to retaliate against leading Czech companies if a prominent senator, who has since died, went ahead as planned to visit Taiwan.
The letter, written in Czech and sent to President Miloš Zeman’s office, suggested that the businesses of carmaker Škoda Auto, PPF’s consumer lending arm Home Credit Group, and instrument maker Petrof Pianos would all suffer.
The issue is due to be discussed on 11 March at a regular meeting on foreign policy between the Czech president, prime minister, foreign minister and the speakers of both houses of Parliament.
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03/10/2020
Hundreds of Czech public offices, including Prague City Hall, plan to raise the flag of Tibet on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the territory’s uprising against Chinese occupation in 1959.
The “Flag for Tibet” campaign aims to highlight long-term human rights violations in the autonomous Chinese province.
In 1996, when the initiative first started here, four Czech city and town halls flew Tibet’s flag. Last year, nearly 750 took part.
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03/09/2020
Tuesday should be cloudy to overcast, with a chance of freezing rain or light snow. Daily highs should range from 8 to 12 degrees Celsius.
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03/09/2020
The granddaughter of Zdeněk Miler, creator of the famous Little Mole cartoon character, has withdrawn her appeal to the Supreme Court over licensing rights.
Karolína Milerová had been trying to win the rights to the Krteček character, as its known in Czech, for more than eight years. She reportedly has now struck a deal with other heirs.
Last March, the High Court in Prague ruled that a contract she signed with her grandfather shortly before his death in 2011 was invalid.
The judges upheld an earlier appeal by a woman who had been authorised to administer Miler’s work five years earlier.
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03/09/2020
Prague’s famous Charles Bridge was vandalised with graffiti over the weekend. Someone spray-painted “Krakow + Moscow = Prague”, and Sunday’s date, on a bridge arcade on the Lesser Town side.
In July 2019, two German nationals were caught by police tagging a Charles Bridge stone support. They were fined 100,000 crowns each, ordered to pay the clean-up costs, and banned from entering the country for five years.
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03/09/2020
The Ministry of Health has banned visits to general hospital wards and senior homes, with some exceptions, as of Tuesday. The ban is among the emergency measures aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus.
Speaking after Monday’s National Security Council meeting, Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch said exceptions are made for visiting minors, people with limited legal capacity, new mothers, and hospice and terminal patients.
Vojtěch noted that the risk of infection and serious illness due to coronavirus is minimal for children, and so not being able to have visitors could cause them unnecessary stress.
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03/09/2020
Prague’s Petřín funicular, among the city’s top tourist attractions, was closed on Monday morning for regular maintenance. It is due to reopen on March 28.
The funicular, which runs from Újezd to Petřín Hill, serves more than 2 million riders a year, and is second only to Prague Castle as a tourist destination.
The Prague transport authority said that over the next three weeks the transformer stations, cabins, cableways and rails will be inspected and if necessary repaired.
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