The new measures will come into force on Thursday at six o’clock in the morning and will end no earlier than November 3 at 11 pm and 59 minutes. Of course, people can continue to go shopping for groceries or drugstores, as well as pharmacies and, for example, petrol stations.
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A summary of all exempted businesses and services can be found in this article:
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Why it is necessary to tighten
The aim of the current measures is, similarly to the spring, to shrink the lives of people in the Czech Republic to only the most necessary social activities. Why did the government decide to tighten? According to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (YES), the government reacted to the dramatic increase.
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“The increase is huge. And unfortunately, the measures we have taken in recent weeks have not flattened the curve and it seems that they are not working yet, “said the Prime Minister. Read the more detailed justification here:
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When it starts to loosen
The measures are officially announced until November 3. However, the next two weeks of hard measures are perceived as the minimum necessary time, which can also be read from the statements of the Minister of Health Roman Prymula (for YES).
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“The forecast is that if the measures are followed, they should break between the second and third week,” Minister Prymula said during a press conference on Wednesday. But then he talked about the “horizon of the month”, when the reproduction number should return “to values that are significantly lower.”
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He then stated a decrease in the number R to 0.8 as one of the conditions of gradual release. More info:
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Will the children return to school on November 2?
The return of the youngest pupils to schools at the beginning of November is complicated. In recent days, the Minister of Health, Roman Prymula, assured that children going from the first to the fifth grade after the autumn holidays will once again sit in school desks. At Wednesday’s press conference, he admitted the variant that only first and second graders will return to school.
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Why do doctors come from the USA?
The Czech Republic has asked for help abroad. According to members of the government, 28 American doctors should arrive next week to help in the field hospital in Letňany.
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According to Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček (ČSSD), the Czech Ministry of Defense received an offer from the National Guard of Texas and Nebraska, with which the Czech army has signed cooperation.
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How will it be with October 28th?
Minister of Health Roman Prymula said at a government press conference on Wednesday that he would discuss with the President of the Republic again the celebration of the national holiday on October 28, which is still planned for next week at the Castle, despite the increasingly tense situation with coronavirus.
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At the ceremony, state awards should be presented to personalities chosen by the president, the Minister of Health being one of them.
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On Wednesday, however, Roman Prymula’s words indicated that the event would either not take place or at least change its format.
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How limited collection is
From Thursday, restrictions on the right of assembly also apply. Instead of the current five hundred participants, the limit is set at one hundred people, in groups of no more than twenty participants and while maintaining a spacing between groups of participants of at least two meters.
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However, according to some lawyers, the right of assembly cannot be restricted because it is enshrined in the basic charter of rights and freedoms and in the constitution. More in the article:
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Businesses will be about survival
Further forced closures are a very serious problem for small and medium-sized enterprises. “Most companies went into that first wave in full force, but what has happened in recent months has meant a great weakening for them. Now they are really not in full force and many companies will play for survival, “says Radek Špicar, Vice President of the Confederation of Industry and Transport of the Czech Republic, about the new government measures.
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What help will entrepreneurs get
According to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, at the same time as the measures, the government also came up with compensation for the affected entrepreneurs. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Transport, Karel Havlíček, spoke about compensation for self-employed persons and government assistance with the payment of rent.
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What are entrepreneurs entitled to?
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