"Strict quarantine measures will probably last until mid-April. The borders could be closed for months, if not years," said Roman Prymula to iDnes.
This morning, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Tomáš Petříček, informed the Italian Ambassador Nisio that the Czech Republic will send 110,000 masks for the Chinese community in Italy will be delivered as soon as possible. The load will depart within 48 hours. According to Petříček, the police will continue the investigation. “We need to clarify how it is possible that that load appeared illegally in the warehouse in Lovosice,” said the Foreign Minister. “Today (ie on Sunday) I am sending a letter to the Italian Foreign Minister explaining the whole situation. We won’t send the seized equipment but similar gear, which corresponds exactly to the one that was intended for Italy,” added Petříček. “Italy will not lose anything”, said Czech Interior Minister Jan Hamáček. The Czech government in close coordination with the Italian Embassy in Prague has decided to immediately send the load destined to Italy without waiting for the conclusion of the police investigation still in progress. The complexity of the case would require a few more days but the situation in Italy does not allow for waiting. What happened On March 17, the Ministry of the Interior and the Usti nad Labem Region detained...
The number of coronavirus cases in the Czech Republic had risen to 1,047 as of Sunday morning, Health Ministry data showed. The Czech Republic had 158 new cases on Saturday, the ministry said. Six people have recovered and there have been no deaths. Seven patients are in “very serious to critical condition”. Health workers had tested 15,584 people as of Saturday. On Saturday night, a large Ukrainian aircraft An-124 Ruslan landed at Pardubice Airport with five million masks, two million respirators, 120,000 protective suits, 80,000 protective goggles, and tens of thousands of coronavirus tests from Shenzhen, China. According to the Minister of the Interior, three flights with similar loads should land two more times, on Tuesday and Friday.
5 million masks, 2 million respirators, 120,000 protective suits, 80,000 protective goggles, and tens of thousands of coronavirus tests from Shenzhen, China.
Do you want to get notified if you were in contact with people who had been tested positive for coronavirus? A unique application is being developed in the Czech Republic within the COVID19 CZ project. It can trace the infection quite accurately. The team of Mapy.cz has just released an update for the Android operating system, which wants to alert you to potential risky encounters through location sharing. “User location data will be anonymous and separate from other map features. Therefore, login in the application is not necessary,” says one of Mapy.cz developer, Martin Jeřábek. To participate, it is sufficient for a user of Mapy.cz app to agree to share their location. “The updated app is available from Friday, March 20. The more people get involved, the more effective our efforts will be,” adds Jeřábek. Developers are also working to obtain anonymous data about people who tested positive and compare it with the location of users. Advanced algorithms will then allow identifying cases of probable contacts with a positive infected person. The app does not want to spread panic among people, so it only displays a notification to users. “We will always remind to consider, based on the information in...
In these tough time times of Corona scare, a lot of companies around the world are forced to have their employees work from home. Sadly, this might lead to procrastination among a lot of us. To avoid this, we have come up with a few tips that will help you stay productive and focus while you work from home. Let’s take a quick look at these 4 tips one by one. Treat your home workspace like your office Kiara, who works with a website that writes essays for you, says that when she started working from home, the biggest challenge was to convince her subconscious mind that despite it being the home environment, it isn’t the time to relax. So, when your home becomes your workplace, you need to snap out of the relaxing connotations. For you, it might seem easy and relaxing to work in your pajamas, but it can adversely hamper your brain into thinking that it is a relaxing Saturday morning. Our body is used to associating the TV and the pajamas with lazing and relaxing. Thus, to ensure that your productivity is maintained while working from home, you need to give your mind and body a working environment....
Let’s look at it from the positive side. The world will have a Sabbath. Cities will calm down. People will pause and return a little bit into their own bag of skin, into their own human dimensions.
Slovaks are more fearful and pessimistic about the coronavirus outbreak than Czechs, according to the research from the European National Panels company. On the other hand, they trust their government more than Czechs The polling used several indexes to capturing the attitudes and mood of society in the current situation. The research focused on five indicators: the level of fear, confidence in the state, the opinion on the pandemic, the impact of the situation on the population, and citizens’ experience with the virus in their own life. “The obvious difference between the attitudes of the two nations lies in the level of pessimism which reflects the general difference in nature and emotions of both nations. If we look at the figures in more detail, we can see that mostly Slovak woman and people from small Slovak municipalities panic about the situation. On the other hand, Czech men are mostly not concerned about coronavirus,” explained researchers from the European National Panels. “Compared to Czechs, Slovaks are usually more emotional, more open and also more intense. Simply put, Slovak mentality is much closer to the Balkans. They experience things more intensely and know how to express their emotions,” said Jan Tuček, one...
The annual World Happiness Report has just been released, timed to the UN's annual International Day of Happiness on March 20.
A planeload with one million respirators has arrived in the Czech Republic from China to help it deal with its growing coronavirus crisis, as reported by Czech Television. More flights should follow, carrying millions of masks and other medical supplies. According to the Minister of the Interior, three flights with similar loads should land weekly. “I’m convinced that the Czech Republic is out of the worst in terms of lack of protective equipment,” he said. The first deliveries are already being distributed to the regions which are desperately short of respirators and facemasks. The Czech Republic has ordered another 5 millions respirators from China along with 30 million masks and 250,000 sets of protective clothing but it will take until Sunday for the material to arrive. On Wednesday, a Czech aircraft landed in Prague-Kbely, carrying 150,000 testings kit for the coronavirus disease COVID-19. The tests were delivered to residents of those Czech villages that have been lockdown on Monday. The Ministry of Health paid about CZK 14 million for 100,000 testings kit, while another 50,000 tests were paid by the Ministry of the Interior. Transport was provided by the Ministry of Defense. Currently, there are 774 people in the Czech...
During the current coronavirus pandemic, many middle and high schools are struggling with a new situation – virtual school. School campuses have suddenly become empty places, with just a glimmer of what they used to be only a week ago. Now, Heads of Schools all over the Czech Republic are tasked with the challenge of coping with distance learning. Some of the schools in the Czech Republic are doing well, but the majority of schools here don’t know where to start with building a virtual environment for their students. Virtual teaching is not a challenge for the American Academy system of schools. American Academy has been using Google Classroom and other fitting virtual school applications on a daily basis in order to give its students the best possible education with limitless options for learning. American Academy decided to share its expertise with schools that are facing the new challenge of distance learning so that all students of the Czech Republic can continue to educate themselves online. American Academy and Česko Digital started project Virtuální škola that is amassing as many different experiences and tutorials as possible. This site is free for all schools and its hope is to help alleviate some of the...
The Czech government is preparing to offer CZK 100 billion of aid for businesses and CZK 900 billion more in loan guarantees to help the economy withstand the impact of the coronavirus. The combined package could be worth nearly 18% of the central European country’s economic output in 2019 — a huge amount. “The direct assistance could be up to 100 billion crowns and loan guarantees up to 900 billion, in our estimate, which we would offer to business people, individual entrepreneurs and firms,” Babis told a televised news conference. He also called on companies not to start firing workers, as labour offices started to report an influx of new job seekers, mainly from the tourism, hospitality, and other service sectors. Industry Minister Karel Havlicek said the loan guarantees would also be available for self-employed individuals. The government has started taking applications for a loan program for small and medium-sized enterprises and offered firms and individuals the option to postpone some tax payments. The Ministry of Finance expects to raise the projected state budget deficit for this year, Minister Alena Schillerová said. A deficit of CZK 40 billion had been envisaged but that will now increase by tens of billions,...
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