Police officers could be authorized to impose fines of up to CZK 10,000 for violating coronavirus measures. The Chamber of Deputies approved the bill draft. Now it goes to the Senate for the final step. As of 14 April, travelling abroad for “essential activities” will be allowed. This will include business trips, assembly of a production facility, visit a doctor or a relative. Each trip will be followed by 14 days of obligatory quarantine upon return. The number of cases in the Czech Republic increased to 5221, 99 people died, and the number of cured cases increased to 233. There are currently 403 Covid-19 positive patients in the hospitals, out of which 89 (22%) in the intensive care. Around 50% of deaths was due to a pre-existing condition rather than Covid-19. According to Prof. Dušek the positive development of the Covid-19 pandemic in the CZ is mainly thanks to the early reaction of the government rather than other factors like high rate of vaccination against tuberculosis in the population. Škoda Auto has decided to extend production halt within its three Czech factories to at least April 27, the company leadership informed on Wednesday. The “Smart Quarantine”...
Czech Television said Monday it was planning to shoot a “Love in the Time of Corona” sitcom on the spread of the novel coronavirus and screen it by the end of April. “One house, three generations and a global pandemic,” reads the trailer for the six-episode series on the public broadcaster’s website. The show, an apparent paraphrase of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “Love in the Time of Cholera”, will be filmed in a Prague block of flats from April 14 and screened from April 27. The characters are a teenager whose parents are locked down abroad, an old man who has to live on his own with his wife stuck outside their city and a young married couple whose relationship is put to an isolation test, Czech TV said. It called on viewers to send in anecdotes related to quarantine as the authors have the script only for the opening episode. “We only have one screenplay and we’ll definitely need help,” said producer Tomas Baldynsky. To comply with stringent security measures, the series will be recorded on robotic cameras and only the actors will be present on the site. The Czech Republic, which had declared 4,591 cases of the virus...
"We managed to stop the uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 and we can prepare for a return to normal life," Vojtech said.
On Tuesday, the health ministry reported 237 new cases of coronavirus. Health workers carried out 6,233 tests in total on Monday, meaning the official infection rate for that day stood at 3.8 percent. This is well below the epidemic’s daily average of 5.3 percent in the Czech Republic, based on a total of 4,828 confirmed infections from 91,247 tests Eight people died from COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the death toll in the country to 80. On Tuesday, the Chamber of Deputies voted to extend the state of emergency until April 30. It had been scheduled to expire on April 12. Babiš and Hamáček had been pushing for a 30-day extension. Before said that the conditions under which the government imposed tough measures in March still exist, cautioning that there’s still a high risk of “losing control of the epidemic.” Self-employed people will be able to receive up to CZK 25,000 from the state. Entrepreneurs will be able to apply from 15 April and will do so at their tax office and ideally electronically via the tax portal. Overall, they will only be able to apply until the end of June. However, the condition is that applicants must not...
Czech lawmakers on Tuesday approved extending a state of emergency until April 30, a shorter period than what the government had wanted for using the extraordinary legal framework to further tackle the coronavirus outbreak. Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s government had sought a one-month extension to May 11 for the state of emergency, which allows the cabinet to curb some rights of citizens, including freedom of movement or enterprise, and gives it more flexibility in areas such as public procurement. The news was announced at a press conference following a meeting of the Czech Government this afternoon. During the debate, the government faced criticism from the opposition as well as demands for a clear plan of return to normal life in the Czech Republic. The state of emergency allows the government to adopt measures to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, such as limitations on free movement inside the country and across borders, shop and restaurant closures, and streamlined procurement of medical supplies. On March 30, the Czech government extended the quarantine regulations that include a limitation on free movement and mandatory closure of most shops and restaurants until April 11. From March 31, a mandatory 14-day quarantine is now...
Prague City Hall intends to allow retailers to display and sell their products, directly from sidewalks immediately outside of their shop fronts free of charge.
Here are the answers to your questions about how the measures of the Government of the Czech Republic mentioned in the Liberation Package will affect you. Connect Economic Group s.r.o. Tax Advisor Tomáš Navrátil and owner of CEG and Tax Specialist Šárka Pelikánová have answered your questions. Why did the government introduce a liberalization package? The government justifies the introduction of these measures to ensure the health and administrative security. The government official statement is: On the possibility of later payment of income tax, the Ministry of Finance states that “the purpose of remission of late payment interest is to limit the number of people at the tax offices, and to respond to staff shortages on the part of legal persons as a result of virus spread” Other measures include an increase in the tolerance of the least serious misconduct on the part of taxpayers, in circumstances where the spread of the virus reduces their ability to perform their duties, etc. Therefore, it is better not to perceive the measures introduced by this package primarily as economic support from the Czech Government towards taxpayers, i.e. entrepreneurs. It will be better for you to understand all the measures and adapt yourself...
From tomorrow, Tuesday, April 6th, people will be able to do individual sports outdoor. Running or cycling in the parks and woods will be possible without a face mask, as long as they maintain a distance of two meters from others, and stay in groups with a maximum of two people. “We are allowing movement of joggers and cyclists without face masks, but only on the understanding that they maintain the psychological distance of two meters from each other. Simply put, if someone is riding their bike in a forest, they do not need a mask. If someone is running in the forest, they do not need a mask. If someone is moving within an urban area where there are more people and where contact could be less than two metres, they should have a mask.” Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček (ANO) informed about relaxing lockdown measures after Monday’s government meeting. Waste collection and composting facilities will open from Wednesday. From Thursday the following stores can reopen: hardware stores, bicycle repair shops, stores selling work clothes, shoes, textiles, prams and baby seats, stationery, hobby markets, and shoe repair shops. “However, people will have to follow stricter rules,” Havlíček added. “All...
The Deputy Minister of Health Roman Prymula yesterday released an interview for DVTV. “England and Sweden took a conspicuously different approach to the coronavirus from its international peers, trusting the public to adopt voluntary, softer measures to delay the spread of the virus. It didn’t work properly. But a controlled approach that would not be as restrictive as it is now, may deserve attention.” “In the beginning, we had to slow down the epidemic with strict measures. But now we have to decide whether to continue this method or to “relax” these measures – even if the epidemic goes slightly up,” Prymula said. “It is not possible to hold tough measures indefinitely. If the growth rate of cases continues to be linear in the coming days, the bans are expected to be lifted,” he added. “When a group at-risk is managed, the rest of the population should “meet” this virus in time and prove immune. Czechs should meet with coronavirus. I do not say everyone, but those for whom it will not be worse than the flu. And these are people of lower age, and healthy.” However, Babiš said he disagreed with Prymula, and the idea to create herd immunity...
On Sunday, April 5, the Czech government published a visual video that explains in detail how the “smart” quarantine works. The “smart quarantine system” tracks the movements of infected citizens. The monitoring system, which requires consent, will use data from mobile phones and payment cards of people who have been tested positive to find all the potential people that could be infected as a result. All those who they came into contact with are tested and quarantined until cleared. The plan is being implemented with the help of the army in order to speed up testing.
That’s the message the mayor of Prague has for Chinese officials desperate to rebrand Beijing as a global superpower by selling supplies and offering aid to countries around the world struggling to fight coronavirus. “This isn’t a humanitarian gift or aid,” Zdenek Hřib told Bloomberg News on Friday. “From China’s perspective, it’s business.” That “business” has had some serious growing pains in the last few weeks. Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 rapid coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic in March was faulty and less accurate than other tests, forcing the Czech Republic to continue to rely on conventional laboratory tests. Hřib believes that despite the extraordinary circumstances facing the world right now, it is important to keep the pressure on China and challenge the country on its history of human rights abuses. His comments directly contradict Milos Zeman, the Czech Republic’s China-friendly leader, who has accepted Beijing’s help and publicly praised President Xi Jinping a number of times. More recently, while parts of Europe were going into lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, Hrib flew the Tibetan flag over city hall on March 10 to commemorate the anniversary of the region’s failed 1959 revolt over the Communist Party.
The hospital in Brno will take on at least six French coronavirus patients.
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