If you’re worried about touching the walk button at signalized pedestrian crossings, worry no more – at least in high-use areas. This means pedestrians do not need to press the button when wanting to cross the road. Council will continue to review locations with high pedestrian activity and will assess their suitability to receive automatic pedestrian signals. A spokesman for the city said that the pushbuttons cannot be switched off automatically, but need to be programmed individually by engineers, which is why this is being rolled out neighborhood by neighborhood rather than citywide all at once. These intervals vary from location to location, depending on the frequency of public transports and pedestrians. Other cities have already begun automating pedestrian signals in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. In Boston, Sydney, and Lausanne, cities are shifting all pedestrian crossing lights to automatic in order to slow the spread of the virus and protect its residents. Preliminary studies have shown that coronavirus may remain viable up to 72 hours on stainless steel surfaces. While the wind and ultraviolet rays (on sunny days) may decrease that amount, doctors have recommended people avoid touching stainless steel surfaces outside. In a pandemic, every touch counts....
A college senior from Versailles (State of Illinois, US) put her stir-craziness to good use with a project that will help the deaf and hard of hearing community. The student Ashley Lawrence noticed that many people have started making their own face masks due to the shortage of medical supplies amid the coronavirus crisis. But she didn’t see masks designed for the deaf and hard of hearing community — so she decided to sew them herself. “So right before the pandemic, masks were made and made commercialized to help people with hearing loss have access to their doctor’s mouths for lip-reading/speech reading,” Lawrence said in a Facebook post on Monday. “Because of the shortage of masks, everyone started making their own, so I thought: why not make them for all?? This is how we stay #HealthyatHome” “And my mom really likes to craft and she’s really good at just picking stuff up and just doing it,” she said. “So I came down one morning and I was like, ‘What if we made a mask?'” Lawrence, who said she is a senior at Eastern Kentucky University majoring in deaf education, posted photos of two face mask designs, both with transparent screens around the mouth. The transparent screens allow...
Here are the answers to your questions about how the measures of the Government of the Czech Republic mentioned in the Liberation Package will affect you. Connect Economic Group s.r.o. Tax Advisor Tomáš Navrátil and owner of CEG and Tax Specialist Šárka Pelikánová have answered your questions. Why did the government introduce a liberalization package? The government justifies the introduction of these measures to ensure the health and administrative security. The government official statement is: On the possibility of later payment of income tax, the Ministry of Finance states that “the purpose of remission of late payment interest is to limit the number of people at the tax offices, and to respond to staff shortages on the part of legal persons as a result of virus spread” Other measures include an increase in the tolerance of the least serious misconduct on the part of taxpayers, in circumstances where the spread of the virus reduces their ability to perform their duties, etc. Therefore, it is better not to perceive the measures introduced by this package primarily as economic support from the Czech Government towards taxpayers, i.e. entrepreneurs. It will be better for you to understand all the measures and adapt yourself...
Prague Police are looking for additional victims of a 26-years-old taxi driver accused of raping at least three women since January 2020, after they hailed a ride home, authorities said. According to the police, he chose drunken women and took them to remote places. There, he forcefully sexually assaulted the women. “They were, by virtue of their drunkenness, particularly vulnerable. Their incapacity made them no less deserving than anyone else of being safe. They each sought the security and safety they were entitled to expect from a Prague taxi,” said Jan Daněk, spokesman for the Prague police. Police officers have caught the man who is actually in custody for rape. He can face up to ten years in jail. Officers believe the man may have preyed on more women and urged potential victims to come forward. “We believe that these three cases now under investigation may not be the only ones and there are more victims,” added Jan Daněk. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call 158 or 733 678 562 You can find more details here
From tomorrow, Tuesday, April 6th, people will be able to do individual sports outdoor. Running or cycling in the parks and woods will be possible without a face mask, as long as they maintain a distance of two meters from others, and stay in groups with a maximum of two people. “We are allowing movement of joggers and cyclists without face masks, but only on the understanding that they maintain the psychological distance of two meters from each other. Simply put, if someone is riding their bike in a forest, they do not need a mask. If someone is running in the forest, they do not need a mask. If someone is moving within an urban area where there are more people and where contact could be less than two metres, they should have a mask.” Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček (ANO) informed about relaxing lockdown measures after Monday’s government meeting. Waste collection and composting facilities will open from Wednesday. From Thursday the following stores can reopen: hardware stores, bicycle repair shops, stores selling work clothes, shoes, textiles, prams and baby seats, stationery, hobby markets, and shoe repair shops. “However, people will have to follow stricter rules,” Havlíček added. “All...
Theatres, galleries, cinemas, music clubs, and other cultural institutions saw the first impacts of the coronavirus threat during the last few weeks. Thanks to the project called #KULTURAŽIJE, which was initiated by Mall.tv in conjunction with the fundraising platform Donio.cz, viewers can watch live broadcasts of various shows and performances online from home. Starting from today, April 6th, you can enjoy these events on Prague Morning Facebook page. #KULTURAŽIJE was spontaneously started just a day after the ban of events in the Czech Republic on March 10. Originally planned with just a few concerts, and theater performances, #kulturažije has grown into the largest local online festival. In the following days, you can enjoy live concerts by Čechomor, Mňága a Žďorp, Czech National Symphony Orchestra and many more. Over thirty concerts, theatre, and dance performances and other cultural events have been broadcasted online for the past two weeks by MALL.TV For the first time on the Czech Internet, viewers could watch the play of the world-famous pianist Ivo Kahánek, and Cirk La Putyka, a Czech ensemble dedicated professionally to the genre called “the Contemporary Circus”. #KULTURAŽIJE can be watched for free in the Czech Republic and Slovakia at www.mall.tv, ion mobile...
The Deputy Minister of Health Roman Prymula yesterday released an interview for DVTV. “England and Sweden took a conspicuously different approach to the coronavirus from its international peers, trusting the public to adopt voluntary, softer measures to delay the spread of the virus. It didn’t work properly. But a controlled approach that would not be as restrictive as it is now, may deserve attention.” “In the beginning, we had to slow down the epidemic with strict measures. But now we have to decide whether to continue this method or to “relax” these measures – even if the epidemic goes slightly up,” Prymula said. “It is not possible to hold tough measures indefinitely. If the growth rate of cases continues to be linear in the coming days, the bans are expected to be lifted,” he added. “When a group at-risk is managed, the rest of the population should “meet” this virus in time and prove immune. Czechs should meet with coronavirus. I do not say everyone, but those for whom it will not be worse than the flu. And these are people of lower age, and healthy.” However, Babiš said he disagreed with Prymula, and the idea to create herd immunity...
On Sunday, April 5, the Czech government published a visual video that explains in detail how the “smart” quarantine works. The “smart quarantine system” tracks the movements of infected citizens. The monitoring system, which requires consent, will use data from mobile phones and payment cards of people who have been tested positive to find all the potential people that could be infected as a result. All those who they came into contact with are tested and quarantined until cleared. The plan is being implemented with the help of the army in order to speed up testing.
That’s the message the mayor of Prague has for Chinese officials desperate to rebrand Beijing as a global superpower by selling supplies and offering aid to countries around the world struggling to fight coronavirus. “This isn’t a humanitarian gift or aid,” Zdenek Hřib told Bloomberg News on Friday. “From China’s perspective, it’s business.” That “business” has had some serious growing pains in the last few weeks. Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 rapid coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic in March was faulty and less accurate than other tests, forcing the Czech Republic to continue to rely on conventional laboratory tests. Hřib believes that despite the extraordinary circumstances facing the world right now, it is important to keep the pressure on China and challenge the country on its history of human rights abuses. His comments directly contradict Milos Zeman, the Czech Republic’s China-friendly leader, who has accepted Beijing’s help and publicly praised President Xi Jinping a number of times. More recently, while parts of Europe were going into lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, Hrib flew the Tibetan flag over city hall on March 10 to commemorate the anniversary of the region’s failed 1959 revolt over the Communist Party.
A Czech policeman slapped one girl during a “social distance” control of a young group of people in Řepy, Prague 17. The news is reported by iRozhlas. “Our officer behaved unprofessionally and in violation of the law and he’s is under investigation,” Prague Municipal Police spokeswoman Irena Seifertová said. “We immediately forwarded the video to the City Police Inspectorate of the City of Prague. Although we do not yet know exactly what happened on the spot, it is already evident that our officer behaved unprofessionally. This iscompletely unacceptable and we are very sorry,” added Seifertová. Tereza Smažinková – the girl in the video – describes what happened today afternoon: “I was with three friends at a pond in Prague Řepy, when someone called for a patrol. Two police cars arrived, altogether there were five or six officers. They began to behave aggressively and threatened us with a fine, which of course they were entitled to, as we realize that we were violating the decree.” writes Tereza. “Everything was fine until one of the officers said we were not keeping the safe distance,” she continues. “When I stood up, I was slapped as seen at the beginning of the video.” “The policeman’s...
The hospital in Brno will take on at least six French coronavirus patients.
From balconies above side streets in the city of Naples, baskets are being lowered containing essentials.
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