Czech authorities recorded 14,539 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, the highest daily tally since mid-March and close to all-time highs seen in January, health ministry data showed, as a vaccinations campaign started. The figure is almost 50 percent higher than that recorded on the same day last week. It also represents an increase of around 5,000 on Monday and is the largest rise seen so far in the Covid wave currently hitting the Czech Republic. The outgoing government of Prime Minister Andrej Babis has rejected imposing a lockdown or similar restrictions despite the numbers growing steadily in recent weeks, saying vaccinations were the way to tame the fresh wave of the pandemic. The Czech Republic had 6.14 million people fully vaccinated as of Nov. 9. With 58.7% of the total population vaccinated, the country ranks below the European Union average of 64.6%, according to European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The latest vaccination campaign is using graphic pictures of COVID-19 victims accompanied by slogans like: “He did not find the time to get vaccinated.” Hospitalizations grew to 3,295, including 462 people in intensive care.
Prague hygienists inspected 15 restaurants, three cinemas and three theaters on Thursday and Saturday, initiating administrative proceedings against two restaurants for mistakes. They also checked 455 people for the necessary confirmation of infectivity against COVID-19. Six of them were fined by the police for a total of 3,000 CZK, and 11 were warned for failing to wear respiratory protection. From Monday, Nov. 1, in accordance with new pandemic measures, restaurant staff must check that their guests have a certificate of vaccination, COVID-19 in the last six months or a valid negative test. After the announcement of the new measures, the chief hygienist Pavla Svrčinová announced that general inspections would take place at the end of the week. She had previously said that normally hygienists and police will do 1,200 to 1,500 checks a week. According to her, inspectors are often indiscriminately attacked by guests and operators. After the first wave of inspections on Thursday, the hygienists said that they did not find too many mistakes in the restaurants. However, the operators complained their traffic dropped and with it sales. Prior to introducing obligatory checks for infectivity by operators of restaurants and similar establishments, visitors should have the document to submit...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. Prague has been ranked as the best city in Europe for people working remotely and the fifth best in the world, according to the new study “Cities Best Facilitating Remote Work” by HR platform WorkMotion, based on remote working compliance, cost of living, civic infrastructure and liveability. The Czech Senate’s Constitutional Committee says that the upper house should not take action to suspend the powers of President Miloš Zeman unless his health state worsens. The blanket testing of children for COVID-19 at Czech schools has not considerably helped curb the epidemic, since the virus is spread in the entire population, Deputy Health Minister for health care Martina Koziar Vasakova told reporters. Year-on-year inflation rose sharply to an average of 5.7 percent in October from 4.9 percent in September. This follows from the estimates of analysts contacted by ČTK. As of Monday, November 8, Czechs who are fully vaccinated against Covid will once again be able to travel to the United States. Children under 18 do not have to show proof of vaccination but will...
About a fifth of people in the Czech Republic believe in God, although some have doubts, according to a recent survey on faith conducted by STEM/ MARK and commissioned by the Christian Maranatha non-profit organization. Overall, 35 percent of respondents stated they believe in some higher power, while 23 percent do not believe in any in God or a higher power. The survey showed that 48 percent of respondents were led to believe in God by their families. Before reaching adulthood, 57 percent of these people realized their faith in God or a higher power. According to the survey, women, people over the age of 60, and inhabitants of Moravia, in the southeast part of Czechia, are more likely to believe in God. During the Covid-19 pandemic, five percent of people changed their attitude toward faith and God — 2 percent of whom did not believe, and now they do, and 3 percent went through an opposite scenario. According to the survey, the pandemic made a fifth of respondents reflect on the meaning of life on Earth. Regarding the opinion on the Ten Commandments, 57 percent of people said they knew about them, but even without them, they say they...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. iPhone owners in the Czech Republic have been targeted by a new phishing attack campaign in the previous days. The scammers are sending SMS messages from Czech phone numbers asking users to update their Apple ID credentials. 56 percent of Czechs are not satisfied with the result of the general election held on October 8-9. Most people approached by the pollster do not believe that the election result will bring along hope for the political stability of the country or help find a solution to long-standing issues of the Czech Republic. The general election winning alliance Together and PirSTAN promises in the coalition program more money for education, reducing inequalities at schools, and reinforcing cooperation between schools and enterprises. Unemployment in the Czech Republic fell to 3.4 percent in October, down from 3.5 percent in September. The Labor Office registered over 251,000 job applicants in October, i.e. roughly 10,500 less than in the previous month. As of Monday, November 8, Czechs who are fully vaccinated against Covid will once again be able...
Last spring, the Czech government added menstrual pads to the stockpile of state reserves in the event of a natural disaster, catastrophe or war. The Ministry of Finance will therefore purchase sanitary towels for CZK 6 million, the first tranche of which will be delivered by TZMO by the end of November. “We are currently working on a contract with food banks, because they will receive two million of these disposable sanitary towels at the end of November free of charge, as part of the fight against period poverty. Another four million pieces will then be delivered to our warehouses by the end of the year,” said the president of the State Material Reserves Administration (SSHR), Pavel Švagr, quoted by iDnes. Menstrual pads will be kept in state reserves in case of natural disasters, war, or other disasters and crises. According to the Ministry of Finance, the planned number of ten million should cover up to a five-day outage of this commodity in the event of an emergency. According to the Minister of Finance Alena Schillerová, menstrual poverty is a problem that affects about 70,000 women in the Czech Republic. “Menstrual poverty is a typical social taboo. Unfortunately, the fact that...
St. Martin’s Day, which Czechs celebrate on November 11, is a holiday of good food and drink. Autumn slowly alternates with winter, and it begins to snow. In the past, the economic year was ending at this time, and the landowners were preparing a feast for their people as a form of thanks, when they were also paid out their wages. And what about today? Today, the feast of St. Martin is a great opportunity to bring a little joy to life! Traditionally, fattened geese are roasted on 11 November, and the first bottles of young wine open at exactly 11:11 am. St. Martin wines are fresh and young, as they only have a few weeks to mature. They are very clear and have a lower alcohol content. For a wine to bear the St. Martin brand, it must be made in the Czech Republic from grapes of the varieties Müller Thurgau, early Roter Veltliner, Moravian Muscat, Blauer Portugieser, Svatovavřinecké (St. Laurent) and Zweigeltrebe and undergo an evaluation by an independent committee. It blind tastes the properties of the wine, such as appearance, aroma, taste, and overall impression of the wine. So if you buy wine with the St. Martin...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. Czech President Milos Zeman, who has been hospitalized at the intensive care unit of the Prague Central Military Hospital (UVN) since October 10, moved to a regular hospital room on Wednesday. The Czech Republic accepted two patients with severe cases of Covid-19 from Romania on Saturday, the news site iRozhlas.cz reported. COVID-19 antigen tests will not be accepted at mass events for over 1,000 people in the Czech Republic as of November 22, and only PCR tests, certificates on full vaccination or on having the COVID infection in the past six months will be valid. Until November 17, trams will not run in the section between the Staroměstská, Právnická fakulta and Čechův most stops, due to tracks renovation. Lines number 17, 42, and 93 will run on a temporarily changed route. Although hundreds of thousands of workers and craftsmen are missing in the production companies, the growth of starting wages has not been seen this year. Workers in professional positions in particular improved, most often by one percent. That’s according to a survey of...
If you’ve been granted a long-term or permanent residence permit in the Czech Republic this year (2021), and you aren’t an EU citizen, there’s a high probability that the duty to attend the Adaptation and Integration Course called “Welcome to the Czech Republic” applies to you. The Czech Ministry of the Interior has established this obligation for specific groups of foreigners from outside of the EU, whose residence permit came into force from January 1, 2021, or later. In Prague, the course is organized by the Integration Centre Prague (ICP), a non-profit organization. ICP is one of the eighteen Centres for Support of Integration of Foreigners in the Czech Republic, which organize these integration seminars all around the Czech Republic. What are the courses about? The course is aimed at helping foreigners in the matters they encounter in their day-to-day life. It helps them get oriented in the new environment and culture. What are the first steps to take upon arrival to the Czech Republic? How does the Czech education and healthcare system work? The course participants will learn this and other information related to how the Czech society works and what the rights and duties of immigrants are. The...
Residents can now find fragments of poems on 15 of the city’s trams. As The Mayor.eu reports, From 4 November until 4 December, Brno’s residents will have the opportunity to read poems in 15 of the Czech city’s trams as part of the project “Poetry in Motion”. Although the trams’ passengers will be people from Brno, they will be reading old and contemporary works by poets from another European city, Kharkiv in Ukraine. At the same time, the residents of the Ukrainian city will read works written by poets from Brno. 13 years ago, Brno and Kharkiv formed a partnership with the aim of creating shared experiences in various areas, from education to urban development. The month-long Poetry in Motion project stems from this partnership, enriching the lives of European citizens and strengthening the ties between them. Commenting on the cultural project, Mayor of Brno Markéta Vaňková shared: “It is great that as part of a partnership, we enrich, inspire and try to get to know each other through literature through such projects. […] Literary works – including poems – can be an important and true testimony to the life and thoughts of locals. Thanks to the fact that the...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. Czech President Milos Zeman, who has been hospitalized at the intensive care unit of the Prague Central Military Hospital (UVN) since October 10, moved to a regular hospital room on Wednesday. The Czech Republic’s central bank has again sharply increased its key interest rate by a point and a quarter to 2.75%, to tackle soaring inflation amid the economy´s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The 22nd edition of the queer film festival Mezipatra begins on Thursday in Prague, with feature films and documentaries by and about LGBT+ people screening through November 11. The People in Need Czech humanitarian NGO has provided financial aid to some 800 families, roughly 5,600 people, in Afghanistan after the Taliban movement overtook the country in August. Every family received some 1,600 up to 2,000 CZK. Although hundreds of thousands of workers and craftsmen are missing in the production companies, the growth of starting wages has not been seen this year. Workers in professional positions in particular improved, most often by one percent. That’s according to a survey of Grafton...
Skeletons of 12 men believed to have fought in the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 have been discovered in Brno. Reconstruction work in the cellars of a house in the city of Brno, south-east Czech Republic, has revealed the skeletons of 12 men, thought to be soldiers who fought in the Napoleonic wars. The bodies were aged between 20 to 30 years old, and had been placed in a previously unknown mass grave. As the grave offered no clues about the individuals’ identities, or even when they were buried, a team of researchers examined the bodies to reconstruct their lives and deaths. “The analysis of the skeletons was very complex,” says Katerina Vymazalova, an assistant professor in the department of anatomy at Masaryk University, Brno, and one of the authors of the paper. “We were able to determine the sex and approximate age at the time of death of the individuals. Paleopathological analysis revealed war wounds, including amputation of part of the femur. Using the radiocarbon method, the skeletons were dated to the early 19th century.” One of the men had a fractured left arm, likely the result of a gunshot, while another had his left thigh amputated by a...
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