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03/05/2020
A government ban on flight connections from Czech Republic to Northern Italy and South Korea, in view of these regions being heavily affected by the coronavirus known as COVID-19, has gone into effect this Thursday.
The ban concernes around 50 flights made to the regions every week, including popular destinations such as Venice and Bologna. A ban on flights to China has been in effect for some time already.
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03/05/2020
This year's Appolo award for best Czech album was awarded to 37-year-old Prague based rapper Hugo Toxx, whose real name is Jan Daněk. Last year he released "1000", an album which has been described as a balanced recording, which has much more energy than those of other rappers of his generation.
Other nominees included "D.Y.K." by singer Vojtěch Dyk, an eponymous album by Czech electronics band Khoiba, the rather long titled "First I Thought Everyone’s Staring at Me but Then I Realized Nobody Cared - All the Creatures I Met Sitting on the Back Seat and How to Deal with What I’ve Learnt" by Margo, Vladimír Mišík's Once I Will Meet You (Jednou tě potkám), Kvalita by Vypsaná fixa and Animal Named Autumn (Zvíře jménem podzim) by alt-rock band Září.
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03/04/2020
More than a fifth of children between the ages of 11 to 15 are either overweight or obese and their numbers are growing every year, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch said on the occasion of World Obesity Day this Wednesday, stressing that more focus on the issue is necessary.
According to Mr Vojtěch, children are now eating more fruits and vegetables while consuming fewer sweets, but lack sufficient exercise, which should amount to around an hour per day.
The statements were made at Wednesday’s address during Charles University’s “Through Movement Against Obesity“ (Pohybem proti obezitě) event in Prague, where visitors could have their blood pressure and sugar levels measured, receive tips on healthy eating as well as being introduced to various sporting activities.
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03/04/2020
Three more cases of coronavirus have been detected in the Czech Republic after tests at the National Reference Laboratory on Wednesday, news site denikn.cz reports.
The first concernes a mother of two from Prague 6 who orginially tested positive for the presence of COVID-19 after taking a private test. She was transefered to Prague's Na Bulovce hospital and the results of the original test have now been confirmed officially by Deputy Health Minister Roman Prymula. However, he told Czech Radio that test results regarding new samples taken from her after she was addmitted to the hospital are still pending.
Two relatives of a woman from the Northen Bohemian town of Děčín have also tested positive for the virus, the Ministry of Health reported in a press release according to denikn.cz.
If the new samples taken from the woman from Prague 6 do show themselves as positive, the total number of infected in the country will lie at eight.
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03/04/2020
More than a half of Czechs are unhappy with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, the makeup of the current government and what his cabinet does, according to a February survey conducted by the Centre for Public Opinion Research (CVVM).
Meanwhile, 42 percent of Czechs said they were happy with the prime minister and 44 percent had a positive view of his cabinet’s work. However, just 36 percent said they were happy with the composition of his government.
Mr Babiš’s government is viewed more favourably than the previous government under the leadership of Bohuslav Sobotka, when it was in its third year of rule. The amount of people unhappy with the prime minister as registered by the survey was 51 percent as opposed to 52 percent now.
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03/04/2020
Temperatures are expected to hover around 8 to 11 degrees Celsius on Thursday. Parts of Eastern Bohemia, Silesia and Northern Moravia are likely to see open skies, while in the west it will be cloudy.
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03/04/2020
Vietnamese airline Bamboo Airways has decided to delay the launch of its new Prague-Hanoi flight connection by a month, due to a downfall in demand following the coronavirus epidemic, website Zdopravy.cz reported on Wednesday, citing the spokeswoman of Prague airport Kateřina Pavlívková. The original plan was for the line to fly twice a week starting from the end of March.
Other airlines have also begun limiting their flight connections to Asia. The Czech government has banned flights from Prague to China and starting Thursday, it will be impossible to fly from the country to regions in Northern Italy and South Korea, news site Lidovky.cz reports.
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03/04/2020
Famous American actor Woody Harrelson who, among other roles, played Larry Flynt in Miloš Forman’s 1996 picture The People vs. Larry Flint, will be attending this year’s Prague International Film Festival, set to take place at the end of March. Mr Harrelson will be accompanying director Oren Moverman, who is to be honoured by organisers at the festival opening.
The Prague International Film Festival, or Febiofest as it is often referred to, will see its programme divided into 14 sections this year, with a new Comedy Competition category. The festival’s Main Competition will feature a selection of the first films by emerging directors aimed at themes of human dignity and strength of character.
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03/04/2020
The Czech Republic will do the outmost to prevent a re-run of the migration crisis of 2015 and humanitarian aid in the form of material gathered from Czech firefighter supplies could be sent to Greece by the end of this week, Interior Minister Jan Hamáček said in the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday.
He went on to say that the Czech Republic has also offered a lump sum of EUR 1 million in immediate financial aid to Greece and can also offer 20 policemen as part of the Frontex European Border and Coast Guard Agency.
Greece is currently dealing with a new wave of thousands of migrants released by Turkey in a move that has been condemned by the Czech Chamber of Deputies as breaking the 2016 EU-Turkey agreement where Turkey promised to stop migrants moving through their country into Europe in exchange for financial help.
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National Museum discovers previously unknown recording of first Czechoslovak President T. G. Masaryk
03/04/2020Curators at the National Museum have discovered a previously unknown recording of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk’s voice while they were digitising the museum’s archive. The 12 minute-long sound is from the president’s speech at Prague Castle on March 7, 1930, when he was celebrating his 80th birthday.
The speech contains the president’s views on the need for schooling reform and education in general. Many of its quotes are timeless, according to National Museum director Michal Lukeš.
Along with other phonographic rollers, the recording was handed over to the National Museum by Czechoslovak Radio in 1966, with the radio unaware of what they contained.
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