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Tomorrow the Government Will Discuss Reopening of Other Shops

According to Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček, the government will release scenarios of easing restrictions for shops and services after Tuesday’s (April 14) meeting.

 by Petr B. Apr 13, 2020

Laid-Off Flight Attendants Retrain to Help Hospitals

SAS Scandanavian Airlines is helping cabin crews use their existing medical emergency training to learn how to "best how to take care of patients to relieve the hard-working heroes in healthcare."

 by Prague Morning Apr 13, 2020

70 Years Ago Today, the Communists Confiscated Czechoslovakia’s Monasteries

On the night of 13 April 1950, State Security operatives, policemen and People's Militia units surrounded 75 Czech and 62 Slovak monasteries.

 by Prague Morning Apr 13, 2020
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COVID-19: Czech Death Toll at 139, Cases Near 6,000

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country is now up to 5,952, with 89 new cases on Sunday.

by Prague Morning Apr 13, 2020

Hamáček: “Easing the Rules on Face Masks Was a Mistake”

According to the Interior Minister and head of the Central Crisis Staff Jan Hamacek (CSSD), the easing to wear face masks was not a good solution.

 by Prague Morning Apr 12, 2020

President Zeman Calls for Solidarity in Easter Address

"Our plan should continue what is being done here successfully because we already know that the epidemic is receding," Zeman said.

 by Prague Morning Apr 12, 2020

VIDEO: Boris Johnson Speech After Release From Hospital

Boris Johnson has been discharged from St Thomas' Hospital after recovering from COVID-19.

 by Prague Morning Apr 12, 2020

VIDEO: Intensive Care Unit in Prague Half Empty as Virus Slows

The intensive care unit in Prague’s General University Hospital was half empty this week. On Tuesday the Czech government relaxed some of the country’s coronavirus restrictions. Unlike doctors at overburdened hospitals in other European countries, Czechs have not been forced to make decisions on who gets the best care. Five of the General University Hospital’s intensive care beds were still unoccupied on Tuesday. The Czech government has agreed to relax some restrictions imposed to contain the epidemic. Industry and trade minister Karel Havlicek said that starting Tuesday, people would not have to wear a mandatory facemask for outdoor individual sports activities, such as jogging or riding a bicycle. As of Thursday, more stores will be allowed to reopen, including hobby markets and businesses selling construction materials and bicycles. The government has also approved a proposal to cancel the ban on Czechs traveling abroad, starting on 14 April. Havlicek said people will have a chance to travel to foreign countries for business trips, visiting relatives, or for medical reasons. On returning, they will have to be quarantined for two weeks.   Join us on Telegram and follow our Insta Stories to read the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Czech Republic.

 by Prague Morning Apr 12, 2020

Czech Student Created Virus Spread Simulation

Bertram Škařupa, a Czech high school student, created a website to show how social distancing is important in consideration of virus spread. He created a simple simulation that illustrates the spread of a virus in different circumstances. “I worked on this project mainly for people who are tired of watching complicated charts or statistics. The simulation was also understood by my eight-year-old brother,” says the young programmer. The graph illustrates the progress of the virus spread. When a virus has no barriers, it spreads exponentially. That means that a lot of people get ill fast and then get better fast. However, when growth is exponential it quickly exceeds the healthcare capacity (represented by the black line). Fortunately, the exponential curve can be slowed and reduced through regulations like social distancing.   Strongest regulations Your browser does not support iframes.      Without regulations  Your browser does not support iframes.        Join us on Telegram and follow our Insta Stories to read the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Czech Republic.  

 by Prague Morning Apr 12, 2020

eRouška App Can Trace Your Contacts Without Sacrificing Your Privacy

The COVID19CZ initiative is currently bringing out a new project which should push the country’s smart quarantine even further. We’re talking about a new eRouška application, which the Ministry of Health has taken under its patronage and which should facilitate an easier, faster, and more effective process of looking up people who are at high risk of infection due to contact with an infected person. The eRouška application is available for operating systems Android (download here) and iOS (it should be released for iPhone in the next few upcoming hours/days) and it’s based on the Bluetooth technology. Once the users give their permission to the app, phones with activated Bluetooth service can let one another know when they meet. The eRouška application then saves anonymized data into the owner’s phone about mobile devices with the same application which were recently in its vicinity. If a user’s coronavirus test comes back positive, the phone data can then be used to send anonymized identification numbers of other applications to health officers during an epidemiologic investigation. If once again the user gives permission, only authorized health officers will be able to pair individual identification numbers with phone numbers entered during the registration and...

 by Prague Morning Apr 12, 2020

Isolation Changes Czech Sex Life, Sex Toy Sales Increase

The clubs are shut. The pubs are shut. Tinder dates are cancelled. One-night stands are literally illegal. But, despite these obvious hurdles, coronavirus has still created a sex industry sales boom. Long-established brands, like Sweden’s Lelo have been surprised by the surge of interest (site traffic increased by 48%, sales by 56%). “That amount of traffic is 7.7% higher even than the recent Christmas period, which is generally our busiest trading period,” says Lelo brand manager Stuart Nugent. Czech internet sex shops are also experiencing a business boom. For example, in March the online store RuzovySlon.cz increased the sales year-on-year by 50 percent, in the first week of April even by one hundred percent. New customers are increasing, existing clients are also spending more. “We’re selling a lot of beginner toys… all our beginner ranges are very popular. It definitely looks like people are saying: ‘I’ve got time, I might try something new,” said Adam Durčák from RuzovySlon.cz. Demand for disinfectants has increased as well, but vibrators, womanizers, vacuum balls and aphrodisiacs are leading the sales. “Masturbators for men are sold significantly more than before,” added Durčák. A similar trend was seen by City Realex, which run the Erotic City...

 by Prague Morning Apr 11, 2020

“Shops to Open Within April, Borders Gradually. Summer Festivals Won’t Happen,” Said Vojtěch

After a month of tightening lockdowns across Europe to combat coronavirus, the Czech Republic will in the coming weeks become one the first European countries to loosen restrictions on daily life and business. Shops According to Vojtěch, the plan is for some non-essential shops and DIY shops to reopen withing the end of April. They would then be followed by shopping malls and hairdressers, where there is a high concentration of people and thus a greater risk of coronavirus transmission. Czech’s health ministry says the rate of new infections has fallen significantly, and he wants to ‘gradually and cautiously return to normality after Easter’ as long as ‘we all remain disciplined during Easter week’. ‘The aim is to open first smaller shops up to 200 square metres, under strict security conditions of course,’ Minister of Industry Karel Havlicek (ANO) said at a press conference. Customers will be required to wear masks when shops re-open. Borders “The Czech borders will not open completely in the coming months,” said the Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch (ANO) on Czech Television. “It is certainly not a matter of weeks, maybe not even months.” From Tuesday, 14 April, the current ban on traveling out of...

 by Prague Morning Apr 11, 2020

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