The Czech Republic’s daily count of new coronavirus cases rose to 2,913 on Thursday, the second highest figure on record, data from the Health Ministry showed. The total number of cases reached 58,374 in the country of 10.7 million, which has been experiencing a surge of infections in recent weeks after relaxing most anti-epidemic measures in the summer. On Thursday, Germany warned against travel to most of the Czech Republic, with the exception of the Ústí nad Labem and Moravian-Silesian regions. Belgium, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Cyprus have already included the whole Czech Republic on the list of countries with high-risk of COVID-19 infection. From Monday, September 28, Greece will also require a negative test upon arrival from the Czech Republic. Closing hours for bars have been moved up to 10 p.m., while outdoor and indoor events could be limited to a maximum of 100 and 50 people, respectively.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has rejected the new EU migration policy proposal, calling parts of it “nonsense.” Brussels wants countries to admit relocated asylum seekers and also to pay for sending them home. “At first glance, it seems that the European Commission still does not understand that the solution to illegal migration is to stop illegal migrants when they arrive on European soil,” Babis said. On Wednesday, Brussels proposed a new “flexible” migration policy. The member states would be given options to admit “some” asylum-seekers relocated from other EU countries, to “sponsor” the return of rejected asylum seekers to their countries of behalf of other member states, and to help with “operational” measures. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson explained that the scheme will provide “clear, fair, and faster border procedures so that people do not have to wait in limbo.” She said Europe should “aim to have legal pathways for more migrants and more refugees.” Babis said called the deal “unacceptable.” The strategy should look like this – the people coming from these countries, they should be stopped and turned back to their countries and be given help there. The Czech PM said that Europe should focus on strengthening border protection, rather than forcing those states refusing to accept migrants...
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New reports show that beer consumption in the center of Prague has temporarily closed or significantly reduced the production of around 20 mini-breweries.
How will Prague look in the next 20 years? Discover the answer at ‘Prague Tomorrow? Priorities in Prague’, an exhibition at the Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP). The exhibition consists of 25 public construction projects which explore ways to transform Prague. They include ambitious aims to transform a brownfield area in the Nové district, to complete the inner city ring road, and build a new park on the island of Štvanice. Mayor Zdeněk Hřib believes that transforming Bubny-Zátory, the city’s largest brownfield, is a particularly fundamental objective for the city as it will improve access to housing. However, Deputy Mayor Petr Hlaváček is supporting potential plans to build a philharmonic building, which he hopes could become a creative symbol of 21st century Prague. Ondřej Boháč, director of the Institute of Planning and Development, explains that the exhibition is a “model selection of twenty-five interesting projects that will change the expression of Prague as we know it today.” The projects have been divided into five specific categories: new neighbourhoods, squares, parks and opportunities and connections. What unites them is improvements for life in the city. Not all of these projects will come to life. Pavel Vyhnánek, Deputy Mayor for Finance and...
Austria will probably include Prague on the list of regions with high-risk of COVID-19 infection, Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček (ČSSD) said on Twitter today.
In June, hundreds of Czechs sat down along a 500-meter table on Prague’s Charles Bridge to celebrate overcoming the coronavirus pandemic with little loss of life. Three months later, the country has Europe’s second-fastest pace of new cases, hospitals are filling up and authorities are racing to catch up. In May and June, the government lifted most coronavirus restrictions whose quick imposition in March had helped the country fare much better than most in Western Europe. Bars and discos reopened, face masks largely disappeared and thousands were allowed at cultural and sports events. Regulations became some of the most relaxed in Europe. Read: Czech Republic to Limit Public Events The past seven days have seen 14,271 cases, as many as in more than four months in the initial wave. Last week, a record 3,128 new infections were reported in a single day. The number of hospital patients has risen more than threefold in September. Prague’s General University Hospital’s intensive care unit was 70% full on Tuesday, department chief Martin Balik said. His main worry was potential school closures cutting staff numbers. “When I don’t get three nurses coming to work because they have to cover for their children at home,...
The Association of Artists now believes they have removed an incredible 13.2 tonnes of these locks over the past 11 years.
The brothel in Prague's Holešovice district has lost its eviction battle with the city council, Mayor Pavel Vyhnánek has announced.
September 23, 1875: the operation was launched solemnly on the first track of the Prague horse-drawn railway from Invalidovna in Karlín to the Chain Bridge of Emperor Franz. It was 3.4 km long, in the territory of Prague monorail with switches, in both suburbs double-track. The first depot was in Karlín. At that time, the name of the company operating the horse-drawn railway was General Direction der Prager Tramway. This date is considered a symbolic beginning of the history of public transport in Prague. In 1876, the track was extended west of the National Theater, through the Újezd hub to the Smíchov Railway Station. In 1882 the network was extended to Vinohrady and Žižkov. At that time, they were independent suburbs of Prague, but now they are incorporated into the city. In 1883, the size of the entire network was 19.43 kilometers. In 1891 the first electric tram line was opened in Letná. This line led from the upper terminal of the Letná Funicular to the pavilion of the Jubilee Exhibition through Ovenecká street. After two more years, this line was extended to the Governor’s Villa, a further distance of 1.4 km. In 1896, on 19 March, František Křižík opened a second, more important tram...
The new Czech health minister said on Tuesday tighter restrictions on bars and public events were imminent after his predecessor resigned following a doubling of COVID-19 infections in the country over the past three weeks. Health Minister Roman Prymula, in a televised interview, said closing hours for bars would be moved up to 10 p.m. from midnight as of Thursday when stricter limits on the number of participants at sporting events will also kick in. He said that limit would be set at 2,000 seated spectators, down from around 10,000. The health ministry planned to issue further details on the new curbs, to be in place for a trial period of 14 days, at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, he said. Read: Netherlands Places Czech Republic on List of High-Risk Countries The Czech Republic acted swiftly at the outset of the pandemic, closing most retail businesses, borders, and schools before many other countries in Europe. Its death toll was 522 as of Tuesday, a small fraction of the tens of thousands of victims in countries such as Spain, Britain, and France. The government lifted most restrictions in the summer, and since then the rate of infection has soared, making it the...
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