As of November 1, restaurant staff must ask guests to present their vaccination certificate, otherwise, the owners of the business could face heavy fines. Anyone who does not present it will not even receive water. However, rather ridiculously it is estimated that up to half of the hospitality staff have rejected the vaccine. So, unvaccinated staff will essentially be checking vaccinated guests as no one will force them to be vaccinated. The immunization of waitresses and waiters seems to be low in most restaurants and cafes. The vast majority are young and carefree people, who do not seem to be afraid of COVID at all. Some business owners have also complained that they should have no leverage to force their staff to be vaccinated. However, the new Czech measure follows from models that have already been applied in countries like Italy, for example, since June. And, it seems to have helped in forcing people to get vaccinated. Anyone who couldn’t stand being without a morning espresso from a coffee shop eventually gave in and ended up on the waiting list in the vaccination center. But if an establishment wants vaccinated guests, shouldn’t their staff lead by example? It seems ridiculous...
The number of daily COVID-19 cases reported in the Czech Republic neared 10,000 for the first time since March, health ministry data showed on Wednesday. The country recorded 9,902 new infections on Tuesday, up from 6,284 on the same day a week ago. Hospitalizations reached more than 2,000 for the first time since May, including 288 people in intensive care. The country like others in central Europe has seen a renewed jump in COVID-19 cases. It is aiming to avoid the stress put on hospitals in previous stronger waves of the pandemic by boosting its vaccination rate, which is above others in the region but trails the European Union average. As of Tuesday, 6.095 million people in the country of 10.7 million had been fully vaccinated. Local Covid testing in Czech schools may end in mid-November The local Covid testing in Czech schools may end after November 15 in the districts with over 300 new Covid cases per 100,000 inhabitants weekly, according to CTK. After this date, the testing is only to take place if ordered by the regional public health office and solely with PCR tests. This Monday, children were tested for Covid-19 at schools in eight districts.
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 centrist and centre-right parties reached an agreement on forming a majority coalition government and its key agenda, said the chairman of the strongest party in the forming coalition on Tuesday. The Czech opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement is going to file a criminal complaint against the Bohemia Energy company, its owner and boards’ members on Tuesday on suspicion of fraud. The company ceased operations in mid-October and has around 900,000 customers looking for a new energy supplier. ŠKODA AUTO’s plan is to launch three more electric cars by the end of the decade. At the same time, he cannot imagine the future of electromobility without a domestic gigafactory. Concerning the crisis of production caused by the lack of chips at the same time, he assumes a return to the normal volume of production in 2022. Czech Airlines (CSA) has resumed its Prague-Copenhagen service. The service will be operated twice a week, on Thursday and Sunday. As of November 1st, the eRouška covid tracing app has been suspended. During its operation, it has warned...
The head of the Institute for Information and Statistics Ladislav Dušek has suggested the country’s Covid-19 cases could reach 10,000 a day this week if the current pace of infections continues. “The number of coronavirus hospitalizations could also increase markedly this week and may soon climb to 3,000. The number of people in intensive care could double,” says Dušek, in an interview for Radiožurnál. 7,591 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Monday, around 3,300 more than the figure on the same day last week and was the highest figure recorded since the end of March. The number of people in hospital with the coronavirus now stands at 1,813, over 250 patients are in critical condition. The reproduction number is now between 1.3 and 1.5. “To put it simply, the prevalence of active infection in the population is growing, largely among the unvaccinated, of course. But we also see an increase among vulnerable groups, including those who have been vaccinated.” “The number of patients in intensive care can double. The positive news, however, is that those very difficult cases are growing at a significantly slower pace than one year ago. This is clearly the effect of...
The Prague residential market continues to break records. Most flats of the last 10 years were sold in the third quarter of this year, with the number of vacant flats on the market currently at a historic low. And the evergreen in record-breaking is prices that don’t seem to have a cap. New flats are currently offered for an average of 137,000 CZK per square meter. For sales that have just begun, the price has climbed to 160,000 CZK per meter. Prices are also rising throughout other regions. In Brno, for example, new flats have almost caught up with those in Prague. Development companies Trigema, Central Group and Skanska published the current analysis of the residential market for the third quarter on Oct. 26. “Recently, unfortunately, we have witnessed an unprecedented decline in the apartments offered. Although new projects are being put on sale, they are far from satisfying all those interested in owner-occupied housing,” says Marcel Soural, owner of the Trigema group. The enormous demand for new housing during this year knocked down supply in the third quarter. According to the developers, 6,100 new flats for new housing were sold during the first three quarters of the year, which...
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. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has ranked the Czech Republic in the bottom fifth of EU member states on its latest Gender Equality Index. The government is preparing a criminal complaint on suspicion of fraud due to the termination of the activities of the Bohemia Energy energy group. The company ceased operations in mid-October and has around 900,000 customers looking for a new energy supplier. Beer production for domestic pubs and restaurants grew by 2% y/y in September 2021. Beer from tanks increased by more than 4.5%, while the output of mini kegs rose by 2.3% and that of classic kegs by 1.8%. The Czech Beer and Malt Association reported that the total beer output fell by almost 5.6%. A Czech model who was jailed for eight years in Pakistan for trying to smuggle £1million of heroin into Ireland has been cleared on appeal, her lawyer has revealed. Tereza Hluskova, 25, was arrested in possession of 8.5kg of heroin in January 2018 at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport. Mandatory coronavirus testing in Czech schools will...
Czech authorities have revealed that entry rules will be tightened for unvaccinated and unrecovered EU nationals from Monday, November 1, as more than half of the 27-nation-bloc have been added to the unsafe travel list. According to the press release issued by the Czech Ministry of Health, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ireland, and Slovakia have been added to the dark red category, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports. Moreover, the red category will now include Denmark, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, whereas Cyprus will be added to the orange category. While all fully vaccinated travellers, those with a previous COVID-19 infection and holders of the EU Digital COVID-19 Certificate and equivalent documents, are eligible to enter the country free of entry restrictions. Unlike those, unvaccinated and unrecovered travellers from red and dark red countries are required to follow these rules: Register before reaching Czechia and undergo a PCR test 72 hours or 48 hours before arrival for antigen tests Take a PCR test no earlier than the fifth day of arrival and no later than the 14th day Travellers from all categories are obliged to fill the arrival form before reaching the country. Previously, the Czech Republic abolished quarantine requirements for arrivals for all categories as the measure had been dropped. “The Ministry...
Approximately 400 restaurants will not comply with the government-imposed measures requiring them to check guests’ vaccine or certificates, representatives of the Chcípl PES initiative said on Monday. The owner of Šeberák restaurant and the chairman of Chcípl PES, Jakub Olbert, claims that the government regulation is illegal and is organizing a demonstration on Prague’s Old Town Square at 3 pm on November 17. “Our employees do not have the right to inform about the health of our guests, they would be in violation of the law, so last week we reported to the Prague Hygiene that we will not comply with government regulations and asked the Czech Trade Inspection Authority for support,” said vice-chairman of Chcípl PES Jiří Janeček. On October 20, the Czech government approved several new measures to tame a steep rise in coronavirus infections, which have reached levels unseen since late April. As of November 1, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and other indoor places need to check whether the patrons have the required COVID-19 certificate confirming they have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from the virus. The government also decided to limit the time for which negative tests are valid. The national health insurance also will not cover the...
An employee of the operating company was fatally injured in a cable car crash on Sunday at the 1012-metre high Ještěd mountain near Liberec. As Ceska Televize reported, the attendant was alone in the cabin when it fell from a height of about 30 metres during a descent. According to the CTK news agency, 14 people were in the second cabin, which was travelling uphill at the same time. According to the fire brigade, they were all rescued unharmed from a height of 15 metres. Some suffered shock, and psychological counsellors were taking care of them. The cause of the accident was initially unclear. The cable car leading to Jested mountain above the city of Liberec has been a popular tourist attraction since 1933, and there has never been an accident. In normal operation, one cabin can accommodate 35 people. Sunday was supposed to be the last operational ride before the winter break. CT24 reported that one of the cabins had fallen off, causing the second cabin, which was carrying tourists, to move downhill on the firmly anchored support cable.
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. A cable car crashed under Mount Jested in Liberec, killing one person, officials said. One of the two cabins of the cable car crashed to the ground in the afternoon. The only person onboard, a staff member, was killed, said Martin Puta, the head of the regional government. Volkswagen’s Skoda Auto will resume production on Sunday at most of its production lines after a two-week outage caused by a shortage of semiconductor chips, a spokesperson said. The cultural parliament of Brno will discuss Brno’s candidacy for the 2028 European Capital of Culture. The debate will take place on November 3rd and is open to the public. Greenpeace will file an administrative lawsuit against the Czech Environment Ministry unless it releases information about the planned Czech-Polish agreement on the operation of the Turow lignite mine situated in southwestern Poland near the Czech border. The first edition of the Billie Jean King Cup, an international women’s team tennis competition previously known as the Fed Cup, starts in Prague on Monday.
Bright auroras may illuminate the dark skies over the Czech Republic this Halloween weekend. A large solar flare erupted Thursday and is set to reach Earth Saturday, which could result in a strong geomagnetic storm and cause the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, to be visible across the US and Europe, including the Czech Republic. This was stated by astronomer Petr Horálek from the Silesian University in Opava with reference to information from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “If the geomagnetic storm is as strong as astronomers predict, the glow observable from our extremities will be low above the northern horizon, most likely after dark,” he said. In Europe, the forecast shows, weather permitting, the aurora borealis may be visible overhead from across Norway, Sweden and Finland, and even as far south as Scotland and St. Petersburg, Russia. It may be visible on the horizon as far south as Dublin, Ireland and Hamburg, Germany. According to Horálek, aurorae are created due to the interaction of charged particles, which travel continuously from the Sun, with molecules and air atoms in the Earth’s high atmosphere. They commonly occur between 80 and 150 kilometers above the earth’s surface. Behind the interaction...
Representatives of the Czech government, employers, and trade unions have refused to impose any restrictions on unvaccinated workers. The priority for the upcoming weeks should be the promotion of vaccination, emphasising its benefits, they said. As EURACTIV.cz reports, the obligation for workers to be vaccinated or test negative was proposed by outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček. However, he failed as the system recently introduced in Italy was harshly criticised by trade unions and employers. “It is impossible to implement such measures to the detriment of employees,” said Vít Samek, vice-president of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions after Wednesday’s tripartite meeting. Health Minister Adam Vojtěch confirmed that obligatory vaccination is currently off the table. The government will focus on vaccine promotion as the only possible solution to the COVID-19 crisis. Czechia is facing another spike in coronavirus cases. On Tuesday, more than 6,000 new cases were recorded, and the number of hospitalised people is steadily rising as well. Only 57% of citizens have been vaccinated so far. The government has already decided to strict the current measures to motivate people to get the jab. From 1 November, restaurants and bars will be obliged to check the COVID certificate. On...
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