The Prague City Hall has published the official video of the Christmas tree lighting in the Old Town Square. Unfortunately, the traditional lighting ceremony did not take place. Christmas markets have also been canceled. The decoration of the spruce is in the colors of the national tricolor. The tree is decorated with six kilometers of light strings, several hundred Christmas balls in blue, white and red, forty light stars and the decoration at the top are three meters high. Due to current restrictions, there is no traditional nativity scene next to the tree. Here’s the video recording of the lights on the 17.5m spruce:
Covid-19 has affected every element of life and Czech students have not been spared. It has pushed learning online while halting other school activities. Hire professional dissertation writing services to help you with the assignments that are still required. Pexels The life of a student does not end because of the pandemic. Some elements are still continuing as normal. Here are the top ten tips for Czech students during this Covid-19 season. Learn As Much As Possible About Covid-19 Do not go into panic mode or feign ignorance about the disease. While it is still relatively new, a lot of information is available from credible sources. Read materials available, watch documentaries, and discuss with friends about the disease. Such awareness helps you to take the right protection measures. Watch News Emerging From Your Department And Institution Departments and colleges are constantly updating their students about the next course of action. Since it is impossible to determine when things will return to normal, remain vigilant to absorb any emerging news. Your classes could have been moved online or such alternative plans made. By watching the news, you avoid missing important announcements about resumption of learning or the way forward. Adjust To...
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.
The Prague Transport Company has launched a website entirely dedicated to the upcoming Metro D.
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...
The long-suffering residents of the small Austrian village of Fucking have confirmed that, from January 1, the town will be known as Fugging. Fans of unusual place-names will mourn the loss. The tiny village north of Salzburg, with a population of just over 100, has become something of an attraction because of its name, with road signs regularly stolen. According to Kurier, annoyed locals tried to stop this from happening by encasing the bottom of the signs in concrete. “I am confirming that it has in fact been decided by the local council,” Tarsdorf Mayor Andrea Holzner told Reuters. “I will not say any more about it.” Fugging apparently better reflects the pronunciation of the town by locals. The name change is slated to take effect on Jan. 1, 2021, according to the city government. In 2018, the adult site Pornhub announced that it would grant premium access to residents of several sexually suggestive communities, including Fucking, Austria, Big Beaver, Pennsylvania, and Titz, Germany. It’s unclear how many Fucking residents actually took the site up on its offer, or if they’ll be able to keep the benefits once the name has changed. The community dates back to at least 1070 and...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed on Wednesday that Germany’s coronavirus partial lockdown will not be lifted until December 20 at the earliest, and may be extended until the beginning of January. “This is absolutely not the time to sound the all-clear,” she told journalists, after the number of deaths from the virus reached a daily record. Certain additional restrictions are introduced, but there will be a brief amnesty over Christmas. However, restaurants and bars will be required to stay closed over the holiday period. Until December 20, meetings with friends and relatives are limited to one other household, and up to a maximum of five people, while bars, restaurants, and gyms will remain closed. Merkel said the exponential increase in new infections had come to a halt. “The steeply rising curve has become a flat one, but this is only a partial success. We can by no means be satisfied with this partial success,” she said. Extra restrictions include the wearing of masks in some situations in schools and the limit for meetings reduced from 10 people to five people from two households. Travel for holidays, in particular ski vacations, are strongly discouraged until at least January 10. “After March, I am very optimistic because...
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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