Ukraine’s SkyUp airline has been granted permission to operate seven routes between the Czech Republic and Ukraine, starting in April, including a twice-weekly route from Brno. Another connection is planned with Ostrava, according to zdopravy.cz. The carrier has received from the Ukrainian State Aviation Commission permission to run seven new routes between the two countries from April 2021. Kyiv-Brno flights are planned to depart twice a week. SkyUp flights to the Czech Republic are currently suspended, but the carrier seeks to resume its previous lines between Prague and Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv from March, as well as the route from Kyiv to Pardubice. Wizz Air also began operating routes from Lviv and Kyiv to Pardubice in 2020. Updated travelling map As of Thursday, January 7th, new measures will apply for those entering the Czech Republic, introduced by the Ministry of Health. Travellers from red countries (including Czech citizens and foreign nationals) must complete an arrival form and show a negative PCR test (done either abroad or in the country), or undergo quarantine upon entering the Czech Republic. Travellers from orange countries may arrive without completing an arrival form. However, foreigners who are coming for work or to study must present...
Consumption of medical cannabis in the Czech Republic has quadrupled year-on-year. While in 2019 patients were prescribed 17 kilograms of cannabis, last year the amount increased to 66.8 kilograms. According to data published by the Office of the Government’s Drug Policy Department, the Ministry of Health, and the Public Institute for Drug Control, the increase was due to the fact that since last year, 90 percent of the price of cannabis has been covered by health insurance. At the end of 2019, 434 patients were prescribed marijuana for medicinal purposes, last December this figure grew to 1103 people, ie about two and a half times more. The number of registered doctors authorized to issue therapeutic cannabis has also risen – from 78 at the end of 2019 to 123 in 2020. In 2019, doctors issued 4,145 prescriptions, ie about 345 prescriptions per month. During last year, they prescribed 14,167 recipes, an average of about 1,181 per month. The consumption and prescription of medicinal cannabis has been legal in the Czech Republic since 2013. The first years of the program were riddled with supply shortages due to the cancellation of the first cultivation tender, as well as by a lack of...
LIVE NOW: We are following the press conference of the Czech government. Restrictions measures against the COVID-19 epidemic in the Czech Republic will remain at the fifth and highest level of the PES system at least until 22 January, Health Minister Jan Blatný said at Thursday’s government meeting. If the situation improves next week, the cabinet would meet again to reassess the change. In the fifth level, all restaurants and most shops and services are closed. A maximum of two people (except for the ones from one household) may gather and there is a night curfew between 21:00 and 5:00. Antigen testing will continue after January 15, the Czech government approved. So far, over 950,000 antigen tests have been performed in the Czech Republic. Moreover, the first shipment of 20,000 doses of Moderna vaccine should arrive in the Czech Republic by the end of January. “Originally, we agreed to receive 80,000 doses, so far only 20,000 in two divided shipments have been confirmed,” said Health Minister Blatný. “Restaurants have been shown to spread the virus about twice as elsewhere. We are not considering opening them, similarly to any other country with an epidemic situation similar to ours,” he adds. The government is also preparing legislation that would allow...
More than 15,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to healthcare professionals in the Czech Republic, two-thirds of them in Prague and Brno. According to current data, most health professionals have been vaccinated in Prague and Brno, namely 6,515 in Prague and 4,445 in Brno. Vaccination began in the Liberec region at the latest, where at the moment the IHIS registers only 9 people who received the vaccine. The Hradec Králové Region also has a minimum of vaccinated paramedics, only 150, although there is one of the largest hospitals in the country. “The report is ongoing, hospitals are still entering more data, the deadline for the use of this first set of vaccines is from January 6 to 7, 2021,” said Ladislav Dušek, director Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic. According to the latest statistics, a total of 614 patients are hospitalized in Prague (as of 3 January 2021), 104 of them are asymptomatic, 163 in mild condition, 234 in moderate condition, and 113 in critical condition. 724 patients are now hospitalized in Brno, 178 in mild condition, 396 in moderate condition, and 114 in critical condition. Latest stats The Health Ministry reported 17,668 new...
Some Czech crematoriums are near or at capacity due to a spike in coronavirus deaths, and they are looking for alternative cremation sites, Interior Minister Jan Hamáček said on Wednesday. The Czech Republic has been struggling with another surge of the illness, with new records in daily cases and rising hospital admissions pointing to more victims in the coming weeks. The country’s 12.7 deaths per million using the latest seven-day average was the world’s highest rate, according to the ourworldindata.org website supported by Oxford University. Hamacek said the situation was hardest in the eastern region of Moravia-Silesia, while in other regions facilities were almost operating at full capacity. The deceased would have to be moved between regions, he said. “Right now, one such transport of around 50 bodies needs to be done, and we will act similarly in other cases,” he said at a televised press conference. “We will have to find a complex solution for the whole country.” In the past week, 127 people with COVID-19 died each day on average in the country of 10.7 million people, and those numbers are likely to be revised up. In a regular year, around 300 people die each day from all...
In 2019, households in the EU spent EUR 117 billion (equivalent to 0.8% of EU GDP) on ‘alcoholic beverages’. This represents 1.6% of their total consumption expenditure, the latest Eurostat survey says. The study does not include though alcoholic beverages paid for in restaurants and hotels. The share of total consumption expenditure spent on alcoholic beverages was the highest in the three Baltic States: Latvia (4.8%), Estonia (4.7%), and Lithuania (3.7%). The Czech Republic ranks fourth (3.4%). Czechs spent CZK 93.4 billion on alcoholic beverages in 2019, compared to CZK 89.2 billion in 2018 and CZK 78.7 billion in 2o17. By far, most of the alcohol purchased in Czech stores is consumed in the form of beer. According to Eurostat data, Czechs spent nearly CZK 180 billion in restaurants, pubs, and cafes last year. Their expenses in restaurants, pubs, and cafes are growing much faster than expenses for alcoholic beverages in shops. Interestingly, in Latvia and Lithuania, the amount spent on alcohol decreased in the last ten years. In 2009, for example, the numbers were 5.5 and 6.3 pc of the household expenditure in the case of these two countries. At the other end of the spectrum, the figure stood...
The Czech Republic has the most e-shops per capita in the whole of Europe with 45,000 e-shops in operation by the end of 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted both the operation and development of retail real estate markets worldwide, as well as in the CEE-17 countries. The Government restrictions imposed on the operation of shops, service outlets, gastronomy, entertainment, and leisure, have led to the dynamic growth of e-commerce sales and to changes in consumer behavior. These have also contributed to a 20-45% (depending on the country) decline in footfall figures in shopping centres, when we compared data from the middle of 2020. After the Czech Republic as a whole came through the first wave of COVID-19 with flying colours, retailers were looking forward to catching up in the autumn and Christmas seasons. However, as the second wave hit hard in October, the government reinstated the state of emergency and adopted the strategy of minimizing social contact. Therefore, only the most essential stores were permitted to be open for a limited number of days per week and must ensure a certain person per square meter ratio, on top of the now common hygienic measures. Non-essential retail was largely shut...
The Czech Republic’s daily number of new coronavirus cases rose to 17,278, the highest since the pandemic reached the country in March, Health Ministry data showed on Wednesday. There have been 2,034 proven COVID-19 cases in Prague on Tuesday, which is the highest daily increase so far. There are 126,348 active cases currently, the highest since early November. The number of hospitalized patients is at 7,001. In recent days, the virus has spread the most in the Rychnov region, with 683 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days. Hradec Králové and Opava also have over 600 coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants, while Karlovy Vary, Pilsen and Vysočina have the lowest PES score. The PES score remains in the worst, fifth level. The Minister of Health Jan Blatný (ANO) announced that the country will remain on the fifth level for the whole next week. Originally, the government announced the strictest restrictions until January 10. The more contagious mutation of the COVID-19 coronavirus, which was first detected in the United Kingdom in December, has not yet been detected in the Czech Republic, Blatný added. On Tuesday, the Czech presented a detailed vaccination plan. Vaccination of people with relevant chronic diseases...
Shots voluntary, but restaurants and mass events may not let you in without one, says Industry and Trade Minister Karel Havlíček. After a COVID-19 vaccine is available, you may need to get inoculated to go to the restaurant, attend a sporting event, or a concert. Asked if the Czech Republic would introduce an immunity passport, Havlíček said a person’s COVID-19 vaccine status might be included in a phone app that would inform local doctors of a person’s status. “I think you’d probably find that restaurants and bars and cinemas and other venues, sports venues, will probably also use that system,” he said. “However, this system cannot be expected to roll out before the vaccine is widely available,” he added. “The sort of pressure will come to both ways: from service providers — who will say ‘look, demonstrate to us that you have been vaccinated’ — but also, we will make the technology as easy and accessible as possible.” “Immunity passports” were a concept floated early on in the pandemic to allow people who were presumed to be immune to COVID-19 to freely circulate in society. With the advent of a vaccine, the idea has further evolved to encompass immunity through...
The chart, compiled by OurWorldInData and based on John Hopkins University figures, shows that there were an average of 932 new cases per each million Czech residents every day in the week to Sunday. The rise in cases in recent weeks – despite the cancellation of a planned Christmas easing of the rules for millions – has seen the number of new daily infections across the country continue to reach record levels. Among the other countries with the highest average of increments, Lithuania was in second place with 841 infected per million inhabitants, followed by the United Kingdom with 773 infected per million inhabitants, Liechtenstein with 764, Panama with 740, and Slovenia with 706. The Health Ministry reported 12,860 new coronavirus cases on Monday. Laboratories performed 32,385 tests, 39.7 percent were positive. Since the beginning of the epidemic, nearly 86,400 people have been infected with the new type of coronavirus in Prague (82 percent have already recovered). A total of 1113 people died, 37 have so far since the beginning of the new year. There are currently 14,441 people hospitalized in Prague, according to the ministry’s website. Today, the national risk index of the anti-epidemic system PES increased by four...
Looking for a hair-raising experience? Then make your way to one of the 3 most haunted places in the Czech Republic (if you dare…)! Bor forest The mysterious Bor forest, also called Branišovský forest, is located southwest of Česke Budějovice. This forest hides many scary mysteries and stories told by the daredevils who have passed. Soldiers who have served in the area recall hearing strange melodies sung by a male voice. People have seen a male figure hovering a few centimeters above the ground with glowing red eyes wearing a black jacket and hat. Four hundred years ago, there was a settlement that lined the narrow road that connected the village to the outside world. The area was full of deep swamps where many people met their premature deaths. A few years ago, there stood a hanging tree. Over the course of several years, many people had taken their lives on the tree. Finally, villagers decided to burn down the cursed tree. To make matters worse, one night an unknown flying object crashed into the forest. The area was closed for a year and nobody couldn’t enter it – not even soldiers. Velhartice’s cemetery This story may be unknown...
According to a survey conducted by Broker Consulting, almost every second Czech agrees with the statement that the economic crisis is in full swing and will cause a sharp increase in unemployment. However, about 30 percent of the Czech population does not perceive the situation to be so critical. Last year, 38 percent of respondents did not know whether they expected the economic crisis to come. This year, only five percent remained undecided. “The results show that the topic of the economic crisis associated with the coronavirus pandemic is resonating with Czech society and few have remained immune to it. The facts are that inflation reached 2.7 percent in November and unemployment climbed to 3.8 percent, the highest value since 2016. Thus, the data shows a deteriorating economic situation,” Michal Cibulka, from Broker Consulting’s financial planning methodologies, commented on the results. For 2021, a pessimistic view slightly prevails, with 28 percent of the Czech population expecting their situation to deteriorate more or less. In contrast, 24 percent hope for at least a slight improvement. “The good news is that 40 percent of Czechs do not expect their situation to change any more next year. But the reality will depend on how...
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