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- Coronavirus: Vietnamese businesses offer free food, drinks to first responders, facemasks to allSince emergency anti-coronavirus measures went into place, Vietnamese shopsacross the Czech Republic have been offering refreshments to health andrescue service workers. Hundreds of cornershop and restaurant owners haveput up signs featuring red hearts to signal they are taking part in thisact of solidarity.4 min
- “I am taking it minute by minute” – Foreigners in the Czech Republic on quarantine and being cut off from their familiesThere are more than half a million foreigners living in the Czech Republic,according to data from the Ministry of Interior. With the COVID-19 epidemicin full swing across Europe they have found themselves in a strangesituation in recent weeks, living in a country tightly restricted byquarantine and often unable to travel home to visit and support theirfamilies. Radio Prague International spoke to some of them to find out moreabout how they have been impacted by the situation and what they think ofthe measures that have been taken.11 min
- Coronavirus: Czech scientists focus on role proteins play in spreading COVID-19Scientists across the world are working to better understand the novelcoronavirus now affecting hundreds of thousands of people. The Institute ofOrganic Chemistry and Biochemistry, part of the Academy of Sciences, isdoing its part by studying the proteins through which the virus spreads inthe body.4 min
- Teaching in the time of pandemicThere are about 1.5 million children and teenagers enrolled in Czechelementary and secondary schools. These days, as in other Europeancountries, they must stay at home due to the coronavirus outbreak. Teachersare expected to keep in touch with them via e-mail and other online media.How are they managing?10 min
- Deputy health minister: We need to gain time and phase-out the epidemicThe most frequent question being asked these days in connection with thecoronavirus epidemic is how long can it last. The Slovak daily Denik N onThursday published a prognosis compiled by the country’s Institute forHealth Policy which lists three possible scenarios, the most likely ofwhich sees the epidemic peaking in 110 days. What is the situation in theCzech Republic and why have Czechs not seen a similar prognosis?4 min
- Eduard Bass’s The Chattertooth Eleven: a football fairy tale for grown-ups and childrenEduard Bass’ The Chattertooth Eleven, a novel about a father who broughtup his eleven sons as a phenomenal football team, is one of the famousCzech works of fiction. It was published in 1922, the same year that sawthe establishment of the Czechoslovak Football Association, by a formersinger and cabaret director from Prague and has since enchanted generationsof young and adult readers. The book was translated into English already in1943. Its second English edition was published by Karolinum Press in 2008.14 min
- ‘Guardian of the Flooded Village’: centuries-old Czech pine voted European Tree of the YearA lonely 350-year-old Czech tree of the Scots pine variety – defiantlyrooted on the rocky headland of a dam overlooking a village flooded in the1950s to build it – has been voted European Tree of the Year.3 min
- Vilém Spilka Quartet’s ‘Waiting for Tom’ named jazz album of the yearJazz is alive and well in the Czech lands. A total of 46 records in thegenre were released here in 2019, even more than in the previous year.Spoilt for choice, our public radio sister station Český rozhlas Jazz hasmanaged to pick one as album of the year: “Čekání na Toma” (orWaiting for Tom) by the Vilém Spilka Quartet.4 min
- Community aid groups helping the elderly to survive period of self-isolationLocal authorities and community aid groups have come together to help themost vulnerable in society to survive the coronavirus epidemic. Thegovernment has emphatically urged people over 70 to remain in self-imposedisolation in their homes and town halls and volunteers are now scramblingto help meet their needs.4 min
- Coronavirus: Czech cabinet, central bank take further measures to bolster economyThe Czech government and central bank have announced further measures tooffset the impact of the coronavirus on large firms, small businesses andhouseholds. While economic growth is certain to drop steeply in the nearterm, the authorities and experts note this country is better prepared thanmost to weather the storm.5 min
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