• No Colours of Ostrava festival this summer
    03/31/2021

    The next edition of one of the Czech Republic’s biggest arts events, the Colours of Ostrava music festival, will take place over four days in July of 2022, the organisers announced on Wednesday. The huge festival, which is held in a striking former industrial zone in Ostrava’s Dolní Vítkovice area, did not take place last year either. Tickets bought for the 2020 edition will still be valid next year.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Prague police deploy more officers as people gather in sun
    03/31/2021

    Police in Prague are continuing to deploy additional officers at spots where people are gathering because of the current warm weather, in order to check adherence to measures aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19. A spokesperson said that on Tuesday, when it was also sunny, police had to take action at a number of places in the city, including Náplavka, Riegrovy sady and at a beer garden at Ohrada in Prague 3.

    People are currently forbidden from drinking in public and respirators are compulsory. Officers carried out around 1,600 checks in central Prague on Tuesday, as well as 8,000 at city limits, as they enforced a ban on movement between districts.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Prague transport authority to check vehicles for presence of coronavirus
    03/31/2021

    Prague’s public transport authority will employ special biosensors and air collection systems on its services with a view to ascertaining the possible presence of the coronavirus. In April it will collect around 500 samples from surfaces and the air on buses, trams and Metro cars and stations, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.

    Experts from the Institute of Physics at the Czech Academy of Science will cooperate on the project. The results will be published around the start of June.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Weather forecast
    03/31/2021

    It should be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Thursday, with an average high temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Good Friday is expected to be sunny, but cooler.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Tuesday first in nearly two months with fewer than 10,000 new Covid cases
    03/31/2021

    Some 8,568 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, 2,400 fewer than on the same day last week, continuing a downward trend.

    It was the first time since early February when less than 10,000 new cases were confirmed on a Tuesday. Over 7,500 people are hospitalised with the virus. The coronavirus reproduction number stands at 0.85.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czechs lose 1:0 to Wales in first World Cup qualifying defeat
    03/31/2021

    The Czech Republic lost 1:0 to Wales in a qualifier for the 2022 World Cup in Cardiff on Tuesday night, succumbing to a goal in the 81st minute. Both sides had a player sent off. After suffering their first defeat the Czechs are now second in their qualifying group, behind Belgium, with four points from three games.

    Prior to the game the Czech side did not take the knee, a gesture many teams use to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Instead they adopted what they called a neutral apolitical stance, pointing to the UEFA Respect badges on their jerseys.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Poll puts Pirates and Mayors three points ahead of ANO
    03/30/2021

    A new opinion poll from the Median agency suggests that the electoral coalition of the Pirate Party and the Mayors & Independents would have come first with 27.5 percent of the vote if elections had been held in March. Government leaders ANO would finish second on 24.5 percent, the survey indicates.

    A coalition of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and TOP 09 garnered 17.5 percent support from respondents in the poll, while Tomio Okamura’s Freedom and Direct Democracy got 10 percent.

    The Social Democrats, the junior party in the current coalition, would not reach the threshold to make the lower house, the survey indicates.

    General elections are planned for October.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Kúdela travels to Wales for World Cup qualifier despite controversy
    03/30/2021

    Slavia Prague defender Ondřej Kúdela travelled to Wales for a World Cup qualifier with the Czech national team on Tuesday night, despite earlier reports he would not travel after Slavia citied security concerns.

    Kúdela was at the centre of controversy recently after he was accused of racial abuse in a club game against Glasgow Rangers in Scotland. There have been reports that UK police are seeking to interview him about the alleged incident.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Second doses of Pfizer and Moderna jabs now after 42 days
    03/30/2021

    Second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines will be administered 42 days after the first in the Czech Republic, the Ministry of Health said. The Government Council for Health Risks on Tuesday rubberstamped a proposal from Minister Jan Blatný to extend the gap between doses to 42 days.

    Previously the time between jabs was set at 21 days for Pfizer/BioNTech and 28 days for Moderna. The period between AstraZeneca injections will remain 12 weeks.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Minister Maláčová contracts Covid-19
    03/30/2021

    The Czech minister of labour and social affairs, Jana Maláčová of the Social Democrats, has tested positive for Covid-19. Minister Maláčová wrote on social media that she had minor symptoms of respiratory illness and would be in isolation for at least a fortnight.

    A number of other members of the coalition cabinet have also had tested positive in the past, including Jan Hamáček, Lubomír Metnar, Klára Dostálová, Tomáš Petříček and Miroslav Toman.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

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