The Czech Republic will contribute more than €11.4 million (305 million korunas) to the European fund financing the development and research of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch Vojtěch stated that the member states of the European Union should contribute €750 million in total (20 billion korunas). Thus, the Czech Republic will contribute about 1.5 percent of the amount to the overall fund. According to Vojtěch, the fund was used not only to finance the vaccine but also to buy, for example, the drug Remdesivir and respirators. “Now the fund needs a contribution from individual member states, we were asked to do so by the German presidency,” the minister said. Read: Taiwan to Donate Face Mask Production System to Czech Republic “This guarantees that we will be part of the purchasing process as we are part of a whole project under the European Commission negotiating with individual vaccine manufacturers. We are preliminarily interested in the AstraZeneca vaccine, that is our first pre-order, and now others will follow as progress develops. Thanks to the fact that we participate in this fund, we have the opportunity to be part of the game and possibly participate in the purchase of...
A Tainan-based automation equipment manufacturer said Tuesday it will donate a 3D surgical face mask production system to the Czech Republic, helping the European country combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Autoland Technology Co., Ltd. General Manager Kuo Li-lin said the system, which consists of five fully-automated high-end 3D mask production lines, will be jointly donated by his company and a group of machinery industry leaders in southern Taiwan. The system, which costs US$1.52 million, can produce 43,000 masks per day. It will be completed by the company and sent to the Czech Republic before the end of October, Kuo added. Read: China Issues Travel Advisory for Czech Republic Kuo said the decision to donate the equipment to the European country was made after a Czech delegation headed by Senate President Miloš Vystrčil visited Taiwan earlier this month. Meanwhile, Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che, who visited the company Tuesday, praised the donation as a perfect example of how Taiwan companies are willing to offer humanitarian assistance to others and a model for “people-to-people diplomacy.” The face masks produced by the Taiwan-donated system are scheduled to be used by frontline healthcare workers in the Czech Republic, he added. Read: ‘I Am Taiwanese’: Czech Senate...
Czech Republic has not resumed the issuance of tourist visas to the Chinese, which is, like other EU states, suspended over the COVID pandemic in January, CzechTourism state agency head Jan Herget said today, reacting to China’s warning of its people against going to the Czech Republic with its rising COVID-19 incidence. The number of flights between Europe and China is minimum at present, Herget said. Last year, according to the CZSO, about 610,000 Chinese tourists stayed in the Czech Republic, spending an average of 1.5 nights. Read: Slovakia Adds Czech Republic on List of Risk Countries According to a report by CzechTourism, half of the Chinese tourists stayed in Prague, about a quarter chose the South Bohemian Region. “CzechTourism continues to promote the regions of the Czech Republic on the Chinese market, especially with video blogs. We hope that the situation around coronavirus will stabilize as soon as possible and tourism from China resumes,” said Herget. The Czech Republic reported 1,038 new coronavirus cases on Monday, above 1,000 for the sixth time in the past week, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. Read: Czech Republic Ranks 25th Worldwide in Quality of Life Among a total of 37,222 cases reported...
Slovakia will rank the Czech Republic among high-risk countries from this Friday (September 18) due to the spread of coronavirus, the Slovak Central Crisis Staff decided today. The State Secretary of the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Martin Klus, informed about it on Twitter. When traveling from the Czech Republic to Slovakia, people will, with some exceptions, have to submit a negative coronavirus test result (not older than 72 hours) or quarantine for five days and then undergo the test. Exceptions are valid for commuters living within 30 kilometers of the border. Read: Prague Reintroduces Public Transport Protection Measures According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the Czech Republic had an average of 38 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per day in the last two weeks. On Wednesday, Germany has joined Belgium in placing Prague on its “red list” of risky travel destinations. Citizens traveling back from Prague need to submit a negative Covid-19 test result – or go into quarantine. Read: China Issues Travel Advisory for Czech Republic The Czech Republic reported 792 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, a drop after five consecutive days of more than 1,000 cases each.
The ČSSD party has proposed to limit the number of nights Airbnb hosts can rent out their apartments in Prague, imposing a cap of 30 per year. The efforts of the Social Democrats are criticized by the opposition and the Prague City Hall, which is itself trying to solve the problem. Limitations are a project for Prague mayor Zdeněk Hřib: “In the past, you could limit the amount of tourists in the city simply by approving a certain number of hotels of certain capacity during the process of building permits.” “Now in Prague, there is no possibility for the city to limit the accommodation capacity for tourists.” His plans include petitioning the country’s central legislative body, asking for a greater independent local regulatory authority. While these have been rejected in the past, Hřib hopes that awareness of the problem will increase appetite for regulation. ČSSD proposal it’s just the latest squeeze on the short term rental platform in Europe. Paris requires hosts on platforms to register their apartments with the city so it can better track compliance. The French capital also caps the number of nights hosts can list their apartment, though at a rather more generous 120 per year. Meanwhile,...
The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Friday issued a notice advising Chinese citizens to avoid tours to the Czech Republic due to the impact of COVID-19. The ministry said that recently the epidemic signals a rapid rebound in the country. According to the estimate of the CzechTourism agency, roughly 620,000 Chinese tourists came to the Czech Republic last year. Each Chinese tourist spent 2.5 days in the country on average. Read: Switzerland to Impose Quarantine on Arrivals From the Czech Republic The warning followed tensions between the two countries over Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil’s trip to Taiwan. Vystrčil became the highest-ranking Czech politician who visited the island in the last 16 years. Chinese tourists in the Czech Republic In 2o19, Chinese visitors made up between five and six percent of the total number of guests in accommodation establishments in the Czech Republic. The average expenditure of one Chinese tourist in the Czech Republic per day is around CZK 1,300. The Czech Republic recorded 792 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, a drop after five consecutive days with more than 1,000 cases each, Health Ministry’s data showed on Monday. Read: Prague Reintroduces Public Transport Protection Measures The ministry has...
Do you ever love wine so much, you wish you could just live inside the bottle? Well, good news: there’s a place for wine lovers where they can experience their favorite wine from the wine’s perspective. At the Pod Hradem winery in Klentnice, South Moravia, guests at the vineyard can stay in giant appointed wine barrels. A welcoming gift awaits you in the shape of a bottle of excellent Moravian wine and a bite to eat to take with you. On the outside, each barrel is made of simple pinewood, but on the inside, each contains an elegant bedroom. Each barrel features high-end amenities like a walk-in shower, a skylight so you can gaze at the stars, Wi-Fi, while the bathroom with toilet is located just a few steps from the barrel. Booking is possible from March to mid-November. “In an idyllic and romantic setting, these wine barrel rooms will provide visitors a unique experience of the nature and significance of the South Moravia wine region,” said a vineyard representative. Czech wine regions 96% of Czech wine is produced in South Moravia in the east of the Czech Republic, and so it is often referred to by locals as...
A bus has been driven into a ditch off a highway in Germany, leaving 31 injured, German media reported on Saturday. The injured are not in life-threatening conditions, according to a local police spokesperson. The bus was heading from Prague to Hamburg. FlixBus spokeswoman Martina Čmielová confirmed. “FlixBus regrets that the bus operated under the FlixBus brand, which was on its way from Prague and Hamburg, had an accident around 5:45 in the morning, “she says. “We are currently making every effort to clarify what happened. FlixBus is in close contact with local authorities and the police,” says Čmielová. The passengers were mainly from the Czech Republic, Turkey, China and Romania, said the North German radio and television station GDR. The spokeswoman added that people do not have to state their nationality when booking the tickets, so the company does not yet know how many Czechs were on the bus. The Czech Embassy in Berlin said that due to the accident, no one had yet turned to the consular or diplomatic service. A large number of rescuers and three helicopters were sent to the crash site, but in the end, they were not needed and could return to their bases,...
Switzerland has included the Czech Republic in the list of countries at risk due to the spread of coronavirus. From Monday, people will have to quarantine for ten days after arriving from the Czech Republic. Friday’s information from the Swiss health authorities was confirmed by Irena Valentová, Deputy Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Bern. The mandatory 10-day quarantine will not apply to transit through Switzerland within 24 hours, nor to transfers to connecting flights at airport terminals. The Swiss Health Authority points out on its website that the mandatory quarantine cannot be replaced by a negative COVID-19 test. Read: Denmark Adds Czech Republic on List of Risk Countries According to Jan Papež, vice-president of the Czech Association of Travel Agencies, the inclusion of the Czech Republic in the Swiss list of high-risk countries “is a problem mainly due to the sale of ski tours to the popular Alpine country. We assume that this decision will be limited for a short time because the situation is still evolving,” said Papež. In addition to the Czech Republic, travellers from nine areas of France (Centre-Val de Loire, Hauts-de-France, Île de France, Normandy, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur) will...
The Danish government has decided to put the Czech Republic on its list of “high-risk” countries, as of 24:00 CEST today. The Czech Republic has been reclassified from the yellow to orange category. Only those who can duly justify their trip from the Czech Republic will be admitted to Danish territory. The Danish authorities allow travels for work, job interviews, transport, or delivery of goods. Students can also come to Denmark for university and high school studies or for an internship, the Czech authorities informed on Twitter. Read: Biggest One-Day Rise in Coronavirus Cases in the Czech Republic: 1,382 Entry is also granted to family members with a direct family connection, such as a parent, child, or sibling, and to unmarried partners of people living in Denmark. According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the Czech Republic had an average of 38 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per day in the last two weeks. The Danish authorities rank a “risk-country” when it reaches 30 infected persons per 100,000 inhabitants. Read: Prague Reintroduces Public Transport Protection Measures On Wednesday, Germany has joined Belgium in placing Prague on its “red list” of risky travel destinations. Citizens traveling back from...
The Czech Republic ranks 25th worldwide in terms of quality of life, according to the latest Social Progress Index
The daily rise announced by the Health Ministry brought the total number of the central European country’s infections to 32,413.
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