The Czech Red Cross is offering free basic nursing courses to those who want to volunteer in hospitals In collaboration with the Czech Red Cross, the City of Prague has called on the general public to volunteer and help relieve healthcare workers. In addition to this, it has approached outpatient and general practitioners, asking them to become more involved in the fight against COVID. The municipality made this announcement on 3 December, after sharing that the virus is not slowing down and that healthcare facilities are beginning to reach their limits. What is worse, Mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib disclosed that the city predicts hospitals will lack 300 paramedics in the second half of December. For this reason, the capital’s healthcare facilities are in urgent need of help. “We all know that the biggest crisis will occur during the Christmas holidays. The people who would like to help do not necessarily have to be paramedics, thanks to – among other things – the free basic nursing courses organised by the Czech Red Cross,” commented Councillor for Healthcare, Milena Johnová. Everyone who is interested in helping the capital and the country fight the pandemic can attend nursing courses with the Czech Red Cross. Richard...
Eurostat published at the beginning of November, data about the general and youth unemployment for September 2021 in both the Eurozone and the European Union. Eurostat, based on ILO (International Labour Organisation) definitions, specify unemployed persons all those people aged between 15 and 74 who: – are without work; – are available to start work within the next two weeks; – and have actively sought employment during the previous four weeks; The unemployment rate is an indicator that measures the numbers of unemployed people as a percentage of the labor force. The labor force is defined as the total number of unemployed people plus those in employment. The youth unemployment rate is defined as the number of people aged between 15 and 24 as a percentage of the labor force of the same age. In September 2021, the euro area recorded an unemployment rate of 7.4%, down from 7.5% in August 2021 and 8.6% in September 2020. On the other hand, the European Union recorded an unemployment rate of 6.7% in September 2021, down from 6.9% in August 2021 and 7.7% in September 2020. Regarding youth unemployment, in September 2021, 2.815 million under-25s were unemployed in the EU and 2.307...
Drivers heading to Prague can now use the large-capacity car park in Černý Most, with a capacity of 886 parking lots. “P + R Černý Most is the largest investment in this infrastructure the city has ever experienced,” said Deputy Mayor for Transport Adam Scheinherr. The construction of the parking house has been started on July 1, 2020. Despite the coronavirus crisis, construction work on this building proceeded according to schedule. With this implementation, the City of Prague has made a significant contribution to improving the traffic situation in Prague 9, where there is a long-term shortage of parking spaces. There are parking spaces with chargers for electric cars (8 lots), parking spaces for CNG / LPG (89 lots) and special lots for people in wheelchairs and parents with prams. P + R Černý Most offers 28 lots for motorcycles and a lockable place where cyclists can store their bikes. Drivers will pay 50 crowns during the day and 100 crowns at night. The city plans to start construction of another parking lot next week, specifically in Nové Butovice. Next year, construction is to begin in Zličín and at the Hostivař Depot. Parking at the edge of Prague is experiencing increasing...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. The validity of Covid-19 vaccination certificates will be reduced to only nine months from January 2022, outgoing health minister Adam Vojtěch announced on Thursday. Another vaccination center will open on December 13 in the Kotva shopping center in Prague. It will be operated by the General University Hospital (VFN). A court in Paris has convicted three Czech men for assaulting Thai political refugee Aung Neko in a Paris café in November 2019, the French daily Le Monde reported on Thursday. The largest P + R car park in Prague has opened in Černý Most. It has a capacity of almost nine hundred cars. The construction cost about half a billion crowns. A total of 302 doctors for adults and 24 pediatricians met the call by the Doctors Help Czechia initiative on the first day and reported their readiness to start vaccination against Covid-19 in their offices, the initiative, whose goal is to speed up the vaccination.
About 500 homeless people will be able to sleep in dormitories and similar facilities in Prague this winter. The dormitories will open on December 1 in extended winter operation. In the winter months, capacity will also increase and the operating hours of low-threshold day centers will be extended. Homeless people can also get vaccinated in the facilities, according to Prague councilor Milena Johnová (Praha Sobě) and director of the city’s contributory organization Prague Social Services Center (CSSP) Martin Šimáček. CSSP is the main coordinator of winter services, in which non-profit organizations also participate. There are two facilities for homeless people to evade covid “We managed to vaccinate some homeless people in cooperation with non-governmental organizations during the year, and we want to use winter humanitarian measures to further increase vaccinations. We will offer people vaccinations on arrival on dormitories on selected days, and vaccinations will continue in low-threshold centers,” Johnová said. She added that about 500 people underwent vaccinations at events in locations where homeless people stay. Other homeless people have been vaccinated in shelters. According to the councilor, the vaccination coverage of the homeless population is about ten to 15 percent. Per Johnová, it is not possible to determine...
“We have an announcement to share with our closest community. For over three years, you’ve been asking how long Manifesto will stay at the Florenc location.” “The more that cranes grew around our market, the more you asked, and now we can finally answer. You can enjoy the last weeks and days of Manifesto Florenc until December 31st, 2021.” This is what the official Manifesto states on its official website. The news comes as construction of the Masarycka building enters level three – set to be completed by 2023. The new location in Prague’s Andel district remains regularly open. Costumers can choose among thirteen kitchens, two large bars, and a capacity of up to 500 seats. Manifesto was first opened in 2018 in Prague, founded by landscape architect and entrepreneur Martin Barry. So far, it has turned three neglected urban spaces into popular meeting places. Manifesto is the first cashless zone in the Czech Republic. The brand is focused on preparing unique gastronomic and cultural experiences in temporary and permanent projects, while especially thinking about future expansion abroad. Manifesto won the Mastercard Merchant of the Year 2018 award for best customer experience, the Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice 2020 title, given to companies...
Czech traveller, writer, and publicist Miroslav Zikmund has died at the age of 102. Miroslav Zikmund is known mainly for the travel expeditions he made together with Jiří Hanzelka between the 1940s and 1960s and during which they, literally, travelled all over the world. They described the experiences gained during their travels in their books and thus enabled people in Czechoslovakia to learn something new about foreign countries. They even had a radio show on Czechoslovak Radio, where the nation could listen to the duo’s international adventures. However, after 1968, their activities were impeded by the regime, therefore, Miroslav Zikmund was able to return to travelling only after 1989. Hanzelka and Zikmund shared the fate of other Czechoslovak dissidents in the post-Prague Spring era, living meagerly for 21 years in menial jobs until the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Hanzelka was one of the dissident speakers at Wenceslas Square when the revolution began on 19 November. With the fall of the Communist government, Hanzelka and Zikmund were again acclaimed as heroes, with extensive interviews and rebroadcasts of their films. Life of Dreams and Reality, a new book about their travel experiences, was published on 22 April 1997, the fiftieth anniversary of the start of their first trip....
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. Pensioners and students can at the moment travel by train and bus at a 75% discount on the total ticket price. However, these transport discounts will soon not be valid because the future government of Petr Fiala is planning changes. Martin Kupka (ODS), a candidate for transport minister, confirmed the speculation. Leading Communist-era dissident Petr Uhl has died at the age of 80. He was a co-founder of the Charter 77 human rights movement. The Czech police have ordered Belarusian football chief Vladimir Bazanov to leave the Czech Republic by December 1, news portal Denik N reported on Wednesday. He and his wife were detained for several hours on Tuesday by migration police in the Moravian-Silesian Region after entering the country without a visa. The monoclonal antibody drugs from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and probably also from Eli Lilly may not be effective against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Czech immunologist Zdenek Hel said on Twitter on Wednesday. A total of 302 doctors for adults and 24 pediatricians met the call by the...
Petr Uhl, a prominent Czech journalist and human rights activist jailed by former communist rulers, died on Wednesday, news agency CTK reported. He was 80. Uhl was a lifelong leftist but never joined the Communist Party that governed Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1989, and was respected by democratic activists of all political convictions. He drew inspiration from west European leftists in Paris where he repeatedly traveled in his youth. He set up a radical leftist youth movement in the 1960s that spoke out against repressions following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and was jailed for four years on charges of subversion. He was one of the founders in late 1976 – alongside future president Vaclav Havel – of the Charter 77 human rights movement which became the main platform of peaceful opposition to the communist government. “Petr Uhl was a brave and straight-forward man who did not change his stance or opinions according to the current expectations in society,” former fellow dissident, Catholic bishop Vaclav Maly told CTK. The country’s incoming center-right government also paid tribute to him. No cause of death was given. “I esteemed Petr Uhl for his courage and persistence in the fight against the communist...
Kuala Lumpur is the top city for expats to live and work abroad in 2021, according to a survey of more than 12,000 respondents from InterNations, an online expat community with more than 4 million global members. The Malaysian capital city leads the list of 57 cities around the world. Málaga, a port city in southern Spain, and Dubai, capital city of the United Arab Emirates, rank as the second and third, respectively. The survey, conducted in January 2021, asked expats to rate their satisfaction across four main categories, including quality of life (like a healthy environment and robust WiFi infrastructure), ease of settling in (such as language barriers and friendliness of local residents), personal finance (such as access to affordable health care) and working abroad (such as job security and a stable local economy). Prague not only makes it into the global top 10 of the Expat City Ranking (7th) but also into the top 5 for two indices. It ranks 4th in the Urban Work Life Index, after Munich (1st), Aachen (2nd), and Dublin (3rd). Expats are particularly happy with the local career opportunities (60% vs. 45% globally), work-life balance (79% vs. 66% globally), and working hours (82% vs....
We haven’t heard much from Moderat, the collaborative project of Modeselektor and Apparat, since they last toured in 2017 in support of their third album, 2016’s III. After teasing their return on Instagram, they’ve now announced a 2022 tour, “MORE D4TA.” It begins in June of 2022 and runs into the fall. See all dates below. Comprising members of Berlin’s electronic heavyweights, Modeselektor and Apparat, the electronic trio will take over Forum Karlin on December 9, 2022. Moderat’s first release was an EP, Auf Kosten der Gesundheit (“At the Cost of Health”) in 2003. Their first full-length album, Moderat, received mostly favorable reviews. In 2009, the readers of Resident Advisor voted Moderat “The #1 Live Act Of The Year”. Moderat’s second album, II was released on August 2, 2013. The first video from II was “Bad Kingdom,” an illustrated piece directed and produced by Pfadfinderei about a young British man in 1966 London traversing a greedy underworld. On March 29, 2016, Moderat’s third album III was released in Germany. A month before, a video to Reminder was released on YouTube. In August 2017, Moderat announced they were taking an indefinite hiatus after their 2017 world tour ended in Berlin on 2 September 2017. MODERAT: 2022 TOUR (Europe) 6/2/2022 FR-Paris, We Love Green Festival 6/10/2022 IT-Rome, JMF @ Rome Summer Fest...
During the 2021 summer operational season, Prague Airport handled over 3 million passengers, representing a year-on-year increase of 213%. The offer of connections comprised a total of 123 destinations, operated by 51 air carriers. Over a third of passengers used the services of Smartwings airlines. Air Navigation Services of the Czech Republic, a state-owned enterprise, provided its services to a total of 291,393 flights in the Czech airspace during the 2021 summer season, representing a 51% year-on-year growth. Last summer, most passengers headed to Amsterdam. The first choice of traditional holiday retreats was Hurghada; the most popular country became Greece, frequented by over 388 thousand passengers. During the 2021 summer operational season, i.e., from 28 March to 30 October 2021, Prague Airport handled a total of 3,090,115 passengers. When compared with the previous summer season, the number of serviced passengers grew by 213 percent. “Looking back at the 2019 summer operational season, the season pre-Covid-19 pandemic, an over 70% drop in the results was recorded. Two years ago, during the same period, almost 12 million passengers passed through the gates of Prague Airport. The same premise does not apply to the number of destinations operated from Prague. Passengers...
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