Several dozen police officers in the Prostějov region have been looking for a Czech senior who went for a walk with his pony and did not return. The missing person was found later in the evening, lying drunk in a ditch by the road. He told police that he had exchanged the animal for a bottle of plum brandy, which he finished all. “Due to the health and weather conditions, the police immediately organized a search operation,” said a police spokesman, claiming that police officers from Prostějov were joined by their colleagues from Olomouc, Novinky.cz reports. An hour later, the man was found in a ditch near Chvalkovice, just a few kilometers from his home. The pony was not with him. “He told the police that he had fallen into the ditch after being dazzled by an oncoming vehicle,” the spokesman added. Further investigation revealed that the breath test showed 1.8 per mille of alcohol in his body. Later, the man admitted to the police that he exchanged the animal for a bottle of plum brandy.
Data published by the Czech Statistical Office in the Statistical Yearbook 2020 show that last year, the Czech Republic had the lowest unemployment rate in the EU for the fourth year in a row. The unemployment rate reached only two percent. Germany ranked second with a 3.2 percent unemployment rate, while Greece remained on the other end of the statistics with 17.3 percent. The EU average unemployment rate was 6.3 percent, while in the eurozone, it was 7.5 percent. The statistics also revealed that in that period, the Czech economy grew faster than the EU and the eurozone average of 1.5 percent and 1.3 percent, respectively. Last year, it grew by 2.6 percent. With 5.5 percent, Ireland’s gross domestic product (GDP) reported the fastest growth. Furthermore, according to published statistics, the standard of living in the Czech Republic last year approached the average level of EU countries. Gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity increased to 92 percent of the EU average from the previous 91 percent. This measure was lowest in Bulgaria, where it reached only 53 percent of the EU average. Despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, unemployment in the Czech Republic remains low. According...
According to the Czech Statistical Office, the food consumption in the Czech Republic last year rose by 1.9 percent, amounting to 796.5 kilograms per capita. Compared to last year, it rose by 1.9 percent. “Historically, the highest consumption per capita was achieved last year in the consumption of rice, namely 6.7 kilograms, then in poultry meat 29 kilograms, cheese 13.8 kilograms, other dairy products 35.2 kilograms and southern fruit 37.5 kilograms,” said Renata Vodičková, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry Statistics. Meat consumption rose to 80.3 kilos, that’s around twice the average of 1950 consumption. On the contrary, the consumption of bread, rabbit meat, milk, and salt decreased. Year-on-year, the consumption of mineral waters and soft drinks decreased by 4.7 liters to 246.8 liters. The decrease was mainly in mineral waters, by 9.2 percent to 56.8 liters. On the contrary, lemonades recorded an increase of one percent to 93.8 liters. Coffee consumption increased by 5.4 percent to 2.2 kilograms, according to statistical data. Czechs consumed a total of 142 liters of beer per capita in 2019, one more liter per person compared to 2018. Data however shows that tap beer sold in bars or restaurants has been slowly declining, with...
A Czech Christmas ornament maker has added tiny masks to the country’s traditional golden pigs, which are said to arrive in the homes of good children who fast before Christmas Eve’s family feast. The glass ornaments which can be hung from a Christmas tree have proved incredibly popular. OZDOBAcz company owner Romana Juklova said they decided to mask the pigs in September to reflect how Czechs are adapting for Christmas this year. “We used to add bows and flowers to them and this year, we added a face mask… We hope that next year we can decorate them a bit more cheerfully.” According to custom, the pigs bring good luck and happiness. The masked pig ornaments have proved so popular, Juklova said, that they are making little else. “They have become a massive hit,” she said. “Now we are not doing anything else apart from making the piglets in face masks.”
Police released online maps of crime in the Czech Republic in which people can see the numbers of various types of crimes and offenses in individual municipalities and their parts. The map is available at this link. The map also says when a crime was reported and whether the perpetrator was found or not. The exact locations in which the crimes were committed cannot be seen on the map in order to protect the victims and their personal data. A part of the maps will not be accessible to everybody but only to the municipal authorities and the police, for example for planning the activities of police patrol and for taking preventive measures. To get information on each district, you need first to click on the indicator above the city and then click the “Show details”. The crime rate in the Czech Republic increased by 3.5 percent to 199,221 cases in 2019 after a steady decline in the five preceding years, according to the annual police statistics. In 2019, police authorities registered an increase in the number of homicides, attempted murders, and cybercrime. The crime rate increased in all regions, except the Liberec region in the northwest and Zlín region...
In the first six months of 2020, 27% of patients who were included in Covid death statistics died exclusively from the virus. The Czech Ministry of Health added that based on current evidence, statisticians assume this figure will have grown to 40 percent in the second half of the year. In many countries around the world – including the Czech Republic, the published statistics of COVID-19-related deaths include people whose deaths had other causes, such as cancer. This happens because, at the time of death, they were also infected with coronavirus. According to the Health Ministry, the total number of patients who have been killed by coronavirus may reach 9 to 10 thousand by the end of the year. On average, patients who died with coronavirus on their certificate in the first half of the year were aged between 79 and 80 years old. Most of them (64%) suffered from serious chronic disease. Following this, the patients suffered from coronary heart disease (39%), diabetes (26%), cardiovascular disease (20%), and cancer (18%). In all of these cases, it is extremely difficult to determine the exact cause of death. About 10% of patients who were included in the statistics of coronavirus deaths...
Do you find putting up Christmas decorations a bit of a chore? If so, spare a thought for Czech Vaclav Trunec, who’s wrapped his house and garden in 27km of festive lights. Trunec first decorated his property 19 years ago with 200 bulbs. He’s steadily expanded the annual display, which now draws thousands to the eastern village of Chotovice (near Litomyšl) every winter. “Why I did start with this? I was inspired by the American films, but I didn’t take their decoration but stayed faithful to the (traditions of) the Czech Republic,” said Trunec. “That’s why you will not find any Santa, reindeer, or flashing stars here.” This year’s display features a nativity scene, animals, carriages, stars and snowmen, and also uses a record 65,000 bulbs and LED diodes and 304 transformers. Its 330 sections are controlled from a single computer. Although some might think he took it too far, his decorations had been entered in the Czech Book of Records, and in 2009 and 2010, he won the competition for the most beautiful Christmas decoration in the Czech Republic. The power consumption of Christmas lights is comparable to the energy of almost 50 switched on TVs or 10 washing...
František Kupka’s painting Divertimento II was sold for 90.24 million crowns including an auction surcharge at today’s auction in Prague, which is a new Czech auction record. Until now, the record price paid at the domestic art auction was 78.65 million crowns for the painting Queen of Spades by the painter Toyen, which was sold in October this year. Divertimento II is one of the most important works of his abstract period of the 1930s. The name Divertimento is associated with Italian musical terminology and refers to a light-hearted or entertaining instrumental composition. Music, of which Kupka was a great admirer, was incorporated into the painter’s early works and was later repeatedly transformed by him into a play of lines and shapes, into mechanisms whose emotional effects create a deeply sensory experience, reflected in the very name of the works. The painting brings ingenious intersections of circular surfaces and their various overlapping sections, through which especially a distinctive black curve penetrates, which acquires circular shapes in its bends. Kupka thus excluded any orthogonal relationships from the painting, settling for rounded sections, each of which he gave one angled, monochrome colour. The painting is firmly connected with Divertimento I, which is...
From Thursday, December 3, all shops, restaurants, and services will reopen, the minister of health, Jan Blatný, said on Sunday morning.
By the end of the year, Vaclav Havel Prague Airport will lay off a fifth of its employees. In spring, 450 jobs have already been cut, another 150 people will be laid off by 2020. “Despite all efforts, Prague Airport is unfortunately forced to eliminate some jobs. By the end of 2020, about 150 positions will be cut, mainly operational and administrative positions,” said Prague Airport spokeswoman Kateřina Pavlíková. The airport employs around 2,900 people. Last year, the airport handled a record 17.8 million passengers. However, due to the pandemic, the airport will not come close to that this year. The airport forecasts it will handle ten million passengers next year, and passenger volumes should return to normal levels within three years. Despite the current situation, the airport has not canceled its expansion plans, which include adding on to the second terminal and the construction of a new parallel runway. The crisis had the greatest impact in April when the airport handled only 5,031 people, 99.6% less compared to 2019. The largest number of passengers used regular direct service to the United Kingdom, Italy, Russia and Spain, and based on the operating results, fifth place was taken over by France. London confirmed its...
Uber has decided to support the activities of social services during the coronavirus crisis and dedicates free rides to workers of the Czech Red Cross. Uber thus builds on its activities during the spring wave of the pandemic, when it provided a thousand free rides to medical staff in the Czech Republic. Employees and volunteers working under the Czech Red Cross will now be able to get Uber rides free of charge when they move around the city to their clients. Uber dedicates a total of 350 rides to the Red Cross in the Czech Republic, and each employee will be able to take advantage of a fare discount of up to CZK 125 per ride, which is a discount that will fully cover most rides around Prague. „The work of social services is now even more important than ever. Therefore, we want to make it easier for volunteers and employees of Czech Red Cross to safely and quickly move around the city, by providing them with free trips on the Uber app,“ describes Stepan Sindelar, Uber’s Country manager for the Czech Republic. During the crisis, the Czech Red Cross helps, among other things, train volunteer medical staff who help to...
About 200,000 workers in the Czech Republic can lose their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic, the director of CzechTourism, Jan Herget has warned. According to Herget, the crisis in tourism has affected practically everyone. “Revenues this year will drop by 53 percent to 139 billion CZK, putting 200,000 jobs at risk, not just in the tourist industry itself, but in related professions such as bakeries or cleaners.” “Last year, tourism revenues amounted to 300 billion CZK, almost 3 percent of the GDP. This year, we estimate that our revenues will drop to 139 billion CZK,” Herget added. According to the head of CzechTourism, the declines in income from foreign tourists can not be compensated by domestic tourists. “The effects are very different. Jeseníky Mountains and the Vysočina region have record numbers, thanks to domestic tourists. And then there are those regions that are dependent on foreign tourists. Prague revenues are down by 80 percent. Foreign visitors from Russia, America, China spend many times more than Czech visitors,” Herget explained. CzechTourism is ready to launch a campaign in support of the Czech Republic as soon as the situation eases. In the first phase will target tourists within driving distance (Germany,...
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