Hospitals face bankruptcy, COVID-19 cases growth slows, US: "book flights now"
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Czech central banker: economic outlook ‘pessimistic’ but coronavirus impact can be mitigated
To counter the economic impact of the coronavirus, the Czech National Bank has twice this month cut interest rates, which now stand at 1 percent. But it has balked at quantitative easing – even though...
Without special crisis funding large hospitals will go bankrupt, warns hospital director
Large hospitals have to begin operating in the state's crisis financing system, otherwise they will go bankrupt, the director of Prague's General Faculty Hospital David Feltl said at a press conference on Friday. He said the current "peacetime" model of hospital financing is insufficent…
Czech Embassy in Washington urging Czech nationals to book flights back home
The Czech Embassy in Washington has called on Czech citizens planning to return to the Czech Republic to book their flights home without delay. The embassy warned that due to the fast spread of the...
Prague Zoo announces birth of elephant calf
Amid the doom and gloom of the coronavirus epidemic, Prague Zoo has announced a piece of good news: the birth of an elephant calf. The zoo closed its doors to visitors ten days ago, but...
Weather
Temperatures are expected to remain largely the same in the Czech Republic on Saturday with skyes opening up in the central and northern parts of the country. Meteorologists expect no rainfall. ...
Increase in COVID-19 infections goes down by third in Czech Republic
Some 259 caes of coronavirus infections were registered in the Czech Republic on Thursday, a decline of around 30 percent as opposed to Wednesday when the number of daily infections peaked. As of Friday mid-day there...
Increase in COVID-19 infections goes down by thrid in Czech Republic
Some 259 caes of coronavirus infections were registered in the Czech Republic on Thursday, a decline of around 30 percent as opposed to Wednesday when the number of daily infections peaked. As of Friday mid-day...
COVID-19 patient in Prague began recovering before he took redemsivir drug, hopsital clarifies
A male COVID-19 patient who was taken into Prague's Faculty Hospital folowing lung failure is recovering and has been taken off extracorporeal life support. News appeared that this was a result of him being granted experimental treatment incvolving the drug known as redemsivir. However, the head…
Prague's Letná pendulum returns, bearing special thank you for solidarity during COVID-19 pandemic
After several months of missing from Prague's Letná hill due to repairs, the famous pendulum designed in 1991 by sculptor Vratislav Novák has returned, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday. The artwork should start swinging in the next few weeks and will bear a banner with the words "Lidi…