Insurance-covered Covid testing at firms may start this month

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Snow and temperatures as low as -15C due next week

2020 Czech TV audiences highest in decades

Communists confirm decision to cease supporting state of emergency

Registered Covid deaths in CR pass 17,000 mark

AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine arrives in CR

Czech crown at highest level against Euro since March

Defence Ministry fined CZK 550mn for errors in Bell helicopter contract

Finance Ministry to propose again tapping EBRD loans, to speed economy recovery

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In a televised address to the public on Thursday, Czech Health Minister Jan Blatný called on Czechs to maintain discipline and not break coronavirus rules in order to help contain the coronavirus epidemic. He also raised the seriousness of the more...

The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra is currently recording the world premiere of a symphony written by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher, one of the world’s most renowned contemporary musicians. The title of the symphony,  A Line above the Sky, refers...

Unemployment in the Czech Republic rose to 4.3 percent in January, up from 4 percent in December, according to data released by the Czech Labour Office on Friday. A month-on-month increase was recorded in all 77 of the country’s districts in Janua...

PM Babiš warns of healthcare system ‘collapse’ if state of emergency not extended

Freight trains collide in Zlín region, damage estimated at CZK 31.1 mn

Basketball: Czech women face Danes on Saturday in final European Championship qualifier

Labour Office: unemployment hit 4.3 pct in January, up 1.2 pp in annual terms

Škoda Transportation Group to deliver another 23 trams to Helsinki

Covid-19: first 20,000 AstraZenka vaccine doses arrive in Czech Republic on Saturday

A new book by Czech anthropologist Kateřina Mildnerová called ‘Namibian Czechs’ maps a fascinating and little known chapter in Czechoslovakia’s history. In 1985, the communist authorities enabled 56 children of Namibian war refugees to live ...

News, health minister warns Covid situation is bad, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra recording symphony by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher, story of Czech-Namibian children focus of new book

Stach and Koubský receive Peroutka Prize

Czech Covid numbers largely unchanged

Blatný: Strict Covid measures no longer working

News, court ruling on election law, assistance dogs, one-man workshop makes perfume bottles for Europe, US, Czech freediver aims to set new record swimming under ice

Pomocné tlapky, a non-profit group that breeds, trains and hands over assistance dogs to people with disabilities, celebrates its twentieth anniversary this week. When established back in February 2001, it was the first such organisation in the Cze...

The Constitutional Court on Wednesday issued a verdict invalidating articles of the election law that it said discriminated against small parties. In future, blocs of parties running together will need to gain only  5 percent of the vote to enter t...

Hundreds suspect Covid vaccine side effects

Blatný rules out transfer of Cheb patients to Germany

Police investigate care home vaccine deaths online lie

At the beginning of the 20th century, glass and especially glass perfume bottles made by small local craftsmen in Josefuv Důl in the Jizera Mountains, generated a lot of interest, selling not only in the fashion capitals of Europe but overseas as w...

David Vencl, a freediver from Teplice, will attempt to break the Guinness world record for the longest swim under ice this month. The current record stands at 76,2 meters, and Vencl says that he aims to swim 80, which comes to about 1 minute and 40 ...

Judge: Voting can go ahead even if legislators haven’t ratified change

New daily Covid cases jump by over 1,000 week-on-week

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Vrba takes reigns at Sparta Prague

The Veverkas invented a revolutionary plough in 1827 that cut, lifted and turned the soil in one go.

Babiš attacks Constutional Court over electoral law ruling

Constitutional Court repeals electoral law clauses favouring big parties; New campaign celebrates women in science; Czech Made, episode 2: the Veverkas' ‘Ruchadlo’ plough

The political landscape in the Czech Republic is set to shift immensely. The Constitutional Court on Wednesday announced it has annulled aspects of electoral law favouring bigger political parties, including the distribution of seats and thresholds ...

A new campaign by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences celebrates women in science, but it also points out to the fact that Czech female scientists are not equally represented. The official hashtag of the campaign, launched on...

Babiš to discuss Russian vaccine on Budapest visit

Hamáček: 35 British variant Covid cases detected in CR to date

Top court hands advantage to coalitions standing in general elections

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Czech Republic passes 1 million known Covid cases mark

The Veverka cousins invented a revolutionary plough in 1827 known as the ‘Ruchadlo’, which cut, lifted and turned soil upside down by means of a curved plate. So why weren’t they better known outside of Bohemia? Find out in the latest edition ...

Czech Republic to acquire anti-Covid drug Bamlan

Czech Republic calling for Navalny’s immediate release

Constitutional Court rejects petition against set term of general elections

Governor of South Moravia claims general practitioners not allowed to inoculate against Covid-19

Government suspends VAT in bid to encourage use of respirators; Thousands join ‘Dry February’ campaign; New long-distance hiking trail crosses Czechia from west to east

The Czech economy experienced the biggest drop in the history of the independent Czech Republic, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday. According to a fresh estimate by the Czech Statistics Office, the country’s Gross Domestic Product fell by ...

The ninth annual ‘Dry February’ (Suchej únor) campaign got underway on Monday, encouraging beer-loving Czechs to abstain from alcohol for the entire month. According to its organizers, the League of Open Men, more than one million people in the...

In a bid to encourage Czechs to wear respirators, which are safer than other types of facemasks, the government is temporarily suspending VAT on such products. However, it has not followed the lead of some neighbouring states by making respirators c...

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Covid-19 numbers slightly up again

Steep increase in death rate in 2020

2020 brought steepest economic decline in country’s modern history

Czech cross-border workers in Austria will have to present one negative PCR test a week

Bečva River cyanide poisoning culprit identified, forensic expert says

Stricter Covid-19 testing rules apply to people entering Czechia as of Friday

Demonstrators call for ending Czech coal mining before 2038

Take away lunches are helping to keep restaurants and pubs around the Czech Republic afloat during the coronavirus crisis. According to the website Novinky.cz, the sums Czechs spent on lunches at dispensing windows in 2020 significantly increased on...

Czech government urges faster action from EMA; Petra Kvitová preparing for Australian Open; Interview with David Ondráčka

HIV infections rose in 2020, most among people in early ‘30s

The much-anticipated 2021 tennis season has got underway in Australia with a week of tune-up tournaments leading up to the Australian Open. The first Grand Slam of the year is due to kick off next Monday, with eleven Czech players scheduled to appea...

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SZIF recommended EU funding for PM-founded Agrofert despite conflict of interest inquiry

Smartwings seeks CZK 500mn in compensation for cancelled spring 2020 flights

Czechs mark ninth annual ‘Dry February’ of alcohol abstinence

Covid-19 risk index rises as R number hits 1.01

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Czechs took the slopes by storm at the weekend despite closed ski resorts in the Ore Mountains and elsewhere. The picture shows snowkiters on a meadow near Boží Dar.  

The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is proving to be a huge challenge for the Czech coalition government. Just days after it further tightened the already strict measures in place, it is facing street protests, cases of civil disobedience and...

Government agrees to make respirators more affordable

Czech foreign minister condemns police violence in Russia

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Demonstration against government restrictions

Škoda recalling Kodiaq and Karoq SUV models due to possible fault in brake pedal

Czech Television: Health Minister Blatný to be replaced within a fortnight

Dry February gains fresh importance due to coronavirus crisis

Validity of paper motorway vignettes expires

Covid numbers drop slightly, but risk index up

The lyrical nostalgic Czech comedy ‘Cutting it Short’ (Postřižiny) about small town life, based on the famous short story by Bohumil Hrabal, premiered in February 1981. The film generated extraordinary interest and has not lost its appeal over...

In today’s edition of Sunday Music Show we’ll be listening to the children’s opera Brundibár, performed by children at the wartime Jewish ghetto in Terezín.

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Pandemic drives up sales, rents of country cottages

Transport Ministry planning to expand highways to reduce congestion

Interview with actor and director Jiří Mádl

Czech government bans all non-essential travel to the Czech Republic

Czech Republic joins appeal for fast certification, distribution of Covid-19 vaccines

Covid risk index drops to 68 points

Tightened coronavirus measures in effect

Czech government bans non-essential travel to the Czech Republic

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Govt tightens Covid measures; Czechs develop contactless monitor to track Covid patients; Czech Books: Jan Balabán

A team of Czech researchers are developing a unique contactless monitoring system which can both track and predict the development of Covid-19 in a hospitalised patient. The highly sensitive sensors – contained in thin mattress pads – both alert...

Today’s edition of our series The Czech Books You Must Read marks 11 years since the death of the novelist and translator Jan Balabán, who is considered one of the best writers of the post-1989 period. His most highly acclaimed work, a collecti...

The coronavirus pandemic has affected not only sales of new cars, but also sales of second-hand vehicles. The turnover of the Czech Republic’s used car market slumped by 46 percent last year to CZK 61.4 billion, the Czech News Agency reported on F...

Government to release videos fighting fake news about Covid vaccines

Conditions for Czech cross-border workers in Austria still being negotiated

Association of Czech Ski Resorts calling for government aid

Protests against tightened restrictions

With the country still experiencing one of Europe’s worst rates of Covid-19 infection, the Czech government is introducing fresh measures to combat the virus. The focus is on reducing social contact – and in particular deterring people from goin...

Registered Covid deaths pass 16,000 mark

Reproduction number rises but risk index stays in level four bracket

New Covid measures tighten conditions for staying at accommodation facilities

News, Czech vaccien strategy in disarray, Clubhouse platform attractig Czech users, new book commemorates Jan Kaplický

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Czech state-owned Budějovický Budvar brewery in South Bohemia produced a record amount of beer last year. In fact, it was the largest amount in its entire 125-year history, the news service Seznam Zprávy reported...

Petříček backs postal voting in lower house debate

Czech Republic falls five places in international corruption index

Wednesday Covid figures similar to previous week

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Radio: Ministry purchasing syringes unsuitable for Pfizer vaccine

Jiří Mádl has been one of the Czech Republic’s most recognisable young film stars since the mid-2000s, when he shot to fame with massive teen movies. But Mádl is also an accomplished writer and director, winning plaudits for the sensitive low-...

Shortly after the start of the inoculation process against Covid-19, hailed by the government as the light at the end of the tunnel, mounting problems with deliveries to the EU have resulted in confusion and uncertainty about the set timetable. As t...

Clubhouse, a new social media application, gained its first Czech users this month and has expanded quickly. The app, which was released in the spring of last year, has caused excitement in the past weeks among Czech netizens, becoming one of the mo...

Cabinet approves transfer of 5 billion crowns to Defence Ministry