During the current coronavirus pandemic, many middle and high schools are struggling with a new situation – virtual school. School campuses have suddenly become empty places, with just a glimmer of what they used to be only a week ago. Now, Heads of Schools all over the Czech Republic are tasked with the challenge of coping with distance learning. Some of the schools in the Czech Republic are doing well, but the majority of schools here don’t know where to start with building a virtual environment for their students. Virtual teaching is not a challenge for the American Academy system of schools. American Academy has been using Google Classroom and other fitting virtual school applications on a daily basis in order to give its students the best possible education with limitless options for learning. American Academy decided to share its expertise with schools that are facing the new challenge of distance learning so that all students of the Czech Republic can continue to educate themselves online. American Academy and Česko Digital started project Virtuální škola that is amassing as many different experiences and tutorials as possible. This site is free for all schools and its hope is to help alleviate some of the...
The Czech government is preparing to offer CZK 100 billion of aid for businesses and CZK 900 billion more in loan guarantees to help the economy withstand the impact of the coronavirus. The combined package could be worth nearly 18% of the central European country’s economic output in 2019 — a huge amount. “The direct assistance could be up to 100 billion crowns and loan guarantees up to 900 billion, in our estimate, which we would offer to business people, individual entrepreneurs and firms,” Babis told a televised news conference. He also called on companies not to start firing workers, as labour offices started to report an influx of new job seekers, mainly from the tourism, hospitality, and other service sectors. Industry Minister Karel Havlicek said the loan guarantees would also be available for self-employed individuals. The government has started taking applications for a loan program for small and medium-sized enterprises and offered firms and individuals the option to postpone some tax payments. The Ministry of Finance expects to raise the projected state budget deficit for this year, Minister Alena Schillerová said. A deficit of CZK 40 billion had been envisaged but that will now increase by tens of billions,...
Prusa Research is producing full-face medical shields for healthcare staff.
The new DameRousky.cz website collects contacts for people who sew face masks (both for free and to buy), offer material for sewing or run a collection point where people can pick up the masks. Users can join the database through a simple registration and choose different categories. There is also information as to whether the manufacturers have run out of material or that due to the excessive number of orders had to stop. The map, which was created with the support of Mapotic and the organization Česko.digital, can filter offers according to whether they are free or not. “Since the cost of one face masks is around 10 CZK – we will not tolerate overpriced offers. We reserve the right to delete them and to block users’ accounts. We consider offers up to 50 CZ,” the authors point out.
There were no cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours in Hubei Province, China, including the city of Wuhan
Various Vietnamese shops nationwide offer free coffee to the medical professionals who are working tirelessly to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus. Hundreds of so-called vecerka or potraviny (small shops open until late) across the country began offering free packaged tea, coffee, and soft drinks to doctors, nurses, and policemen, as reported by Czech Television. ‘Vecerka’ are often tiny self-service stores that sell just about anything you need; from bread, vegetables, and fruit to Becherovka and Asian delicacies. Shops and cafes that have joined the initiative, hanged an announcement with a picture of a heart on the front doors. “We wondered how we could help as a community. The idea came from the people themselves,” says Tran Van Sang, who’s behind this initiative. <
A series of on-line performances will culminate in a concert for 1 million! Countless performers would normally be playing the concert halls and arenas of the Czech Republic this week but as we all know, things are far from normal. However, as the old saying goes, “adversity breeds creativity”! Completely hygienic and in total compliance with the new regulations, a series of online concerts will be broadcast for music lovers to enjoy in their own homes. The current state of emergency has highlighted the amazing work that the emergency services are doing on the front line in the fight against the virus and the moderators of the concerts will be joined by some of these heroes. From firefighters and police officers to doctors and psychologists, the audience will get a chance to hear about their invaluable work and ask questions via the online feed. The concerts start on the 19th of March with a performance by violin virtuoso Jaroslav Svěcený and moderated by Pavel Anděl with special guest Roman Hlinovský, Chief of the Prague Fire service. They will culminate in a grand finale on Sunday. It is hoped that as well as bringing wonderful music to up to 1 million...
On Thursday and Friday from 9:00 to 12:00, you can donate your sewn face masks directly to the Town Hall located at Vodickova 18. They will be brought to hospitals, nursing homes, and private citizens. We will continue to work with the same modality next week. Today Prague City collected 170 face masks from the group Sousedskapomoc.cz. These will be delivered to hospitals in Prague 1 and other masks will be available for citizens of Prague 1. “We have come up with this initiative to help, as far as we can, to address the lack of masks, which are the basic protection against coronavirus and donate them to the most needed. We were delighted that many volunteers were willing to help,” says Mayor Petr Hejma. A Czech Army plane carrying 150,000 rapid test kits for the new coronavirus arrived at Prague’s Kbely airfield in the early hours of Wednesday. The minister of the interior, Jan Hamáček, says 30 million face masks should be delivered on Sunday. These will also be available to the public.
Czech Post limits opening hours. As of tomorrow, all its post offices will close down at 4 pm.
As a result of corona-virus, many of us are forced (and lucky to be able) to work from home. For people who never worked from home or for those parents who have to take care of their kids while working from home, this may be a challenge. As someone who works from home for a couple of years, I know how hard it is to get some regime and not get lazy. However, with the quarantine, I had to adjust my daily routine as well. Here are my tips on how to stick to your work routine while at home but also, how to not get crazy in general. 1. Change into normal clothes and put yourself in order To me personally make a huge difference if I do my morning routine as I would getting ready into an office or a meeting. Days, when I was less productive, were when I stayed in my pajamas all day with messy hair. Take a shower, make yourself pretty and wear some normal clothes. It may seem ridiculous but it helps me to divide my day into working and not working hours and boost my productivity. Remember if you don’t put any...
In response to the current situation and emergency measures against Covid-19, Metronome Prague festival has been postponed to September 17 to 19,
Prague citizens need to wear either medical masks, self-made masks, or a scarf to cover their nose and mouth to go to public buildings, shops, and public transport.
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