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Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis addresses lawmakers during a parliament session in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, June 3, 2021. The Czech coalition government led by populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis is facing a parliamentary no-confidence vote during the session. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Czech coalition government survives no-confidence vote

Jun. 03, 2021 04:51 AM EDT

Member of Czech Parliament Adam Vojtech poses in Parliament building in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Czech Health Minister Petr Arenberger will resign and he will be replaced with former minister Adam Vojtech who stepped down last year, Prime Minister Andrej Babis has told journalists on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. (Vit Simanek/CTK via AP) SLOVAKIA OUT
4th Czech health minister resigns since start of pandemic

By Karel Janicek May. 25, 2021 05:25 AM EDT

Poland's Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, right, walks with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto during a meeting of foreign ministers from four central European countries known as the Visegrad Four in Lodz, Poland, Friday, May 14, 2021.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Europe's 4 Visegrad nations lift some travel restrictions

By Monika Scislowska May. 14, 2021 07:11 AM EDT

Candles and flowers are placed to pay respect to victims of the COVID-19 pandemic at a spontaneous memorial place set at the Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, March 29, 2021. The coronavirus pandemic is unleashing enormous suffering as infection rates rise across central Europe even as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, recently among the worst-hit areas in the world, are finally seeing some improvements following tight lockdowns. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
3rd health minister fired in virus-battered Czech Republic

By Karel Janicek Apr. 07, 2021 05:35 AM EDT

People pay respect to victims of the COVID-19 pandemic at a spontaneous memorial place set at the Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, March 29, 2021. The coronavirus pandemic is unleashing enormous suffering as infection rates rise across central Europe even as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, recently among the worst-hit areas in the world, are finally seeing some improvements following tight lockdowns. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Czechs partially ease lockdown; kids to return to school

By Karel Janicek Apr. 06, 2021 02:27 PM EDT

Health care workers prepare a transport of COVID-19 patients from a overrun hospital in Ceska Lipa, Czech Republic, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Czech Republic to keep lockdown in place through Easter

By Karel Janicek Mar. 18, 2021 04:21 PM EDT

Paramedics transport a patient with COVID-19 disease from the Usti nad Orlici Hospital, Czech Republic, to the Raciborz Hospital in Poland, on March 9, 2021. (Josef Vostarek/CTK via AP) SLOVAKIA OUT
COVID-19 patients moved abroad as Czech hospitals struggle

By Karel Janicek Mar. 09, 2021 09:11 AM EST

A man walks across the medieval Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The Czech government has decided to further tighten restrictive measures amid a surge of a highly contagious coronavirus variant in one of the hardest-hit European Union's nations. At the same time, the worsening situation has forced the Cabinet to abandon for now its plans to reopen all stores. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Czech state orders students to help at struggling hospitals

By Karel Janicek Mar. 05, 2021 10:40 AM EST

Police officers check cars on a road between the towns, Ceske Budejovice and Cesky Krumlov, near Kosov, Czech Republic, Monday, March 1, 2021. Limits for free movement of people are set in place in the Czech Republic. Travelling to other counties unless they go to work or have to take care about relatives is prohibited.(Vaclav Pancer/CTK via AP)
Czechs seek help abroad to treat their COVID-19 patients

By Karel Janicek Mar. 03, 2021 11:20 AM EST

Elderly residents sit and wait after receiving Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a sports hall in Ricany, Czech Republic, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. With new infections soaring due to a highly contagious coronavirus variant and hospitals filling up, one of the hardest-hit countries in the European Union is facing inevitable: a tighter lockdown. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Czechs impose the tightest lockdown amid UK variant surge

By Karel Janicek Feb. 26, 2021 05:59 AM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2020, file photo, a worker inspects syringes of a vaccine for COVID-19 produced by Sinovac at its factory in Beijing. China approved two new more COVID-19 vaccines for wider use Thursday, adding to its growing arsenal of shots: one from CanSino Biologics, and a second one from state-owned Sinopharm. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
The Latest: Governor extends Oregon's state of emergency

By The Associated Press Feb. 25, 2021 01:04 AM EST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Israeli actress Carmit Mesilati Kaplan, right, during a visit to the Khan theater ahead of the re-opening of the culture sector, in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool Photo via AP)
Diplomatic doses: Israel shares vaccines with allied nations

By Josef Federman Feb. 23, 2021 03:51 PM EST

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, file photo, medical workers move a covid-19 patient at a hospital overrun by the covid pandemic in Cheb, Czech Republic. The Czech government has decided to further tighten restrictive measures amid a surge of a highly contagious coronavirus variant in one of the hardest-hit European Union's nations. At the same time, the worsening situation has forced the Cabinet to abandon for now its plans to reopen all stores as soon as next week. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek/File)
Virus surges anew in central Europe in face of new variants

By Karel Janicek And Vanessa Gera Feb. 19, 2021 08:33 AM EST

Cars and trucks from the Czech Republic stand one behind the other at a rest area on highway 17 during border controls by the German Federal Police in Bad Gottleuba, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Germany has implemented tighter border controls on its frontiers with the Czech Republic and Austria’s Tyrol province in an effort to stem the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants. (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via AP)
Czechs re-declare state of emergency to keep restrictions

By Karel Janicek Feb. 14, 2021 02:02 PM EST

Federal police check travellers on the A93 motorway near Kiefersfelden, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Germany has implemented tighter border controls on its frontiers with the Czech Republic and Austria’s Tyrol province in an effort to stem the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants. (Angelika Warmuth/dpa via AP)
Germany tightens border checks to keep out virus variants

By Geir Moulson Feb. 14, 2021 05:20 AM EST

Medical workers move a covid-19 patient into an ambulance at a hospital overrun by the covid pandemic in Cheb, Czech Republic, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The Czech government has imposed a complete lockdown of the three hardest-hit counties to help contain the spread of a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus. The meeasures will became effective Friday for the two counties in western Czech Republic on the German border Cheb and Sokolov and another county in the northern part of the country Trutnov located on the border with Poland. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Czechs in chaos with political infighting amid virus surge

By Karel Janicek Feb. 12, 2021 06:04 AM EST

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, left, arrives at a press conference after talks with his Serbian counterpart Ana Brnabic at the Serbia Palace in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Babis is on a one-day official visit to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Czech PM views Serbia's mass vaccination campaign

Feb. 10, 2021 08:54 AM EST

Poland's military stand at attention as President Andrzej Duda welcomes Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova for a two-day summit with the presidents of Hungary and The Czech Republic marking 30 years of the Visegrad Group, an informal body of political and economic cooperation in the region, at the presidential residence in the Hel Peninsula, Poland, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.(Jakub Szymczuk / KPRP via AP )
Central Europe presidents mark 30 years of Visegrad Group

Feb. 09, 2021 07:19 AM EST

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, and his Czech counterpart Andrej Babis shake hands prior to their press conference in Orban's office in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Feb. 2021. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
Czech PM in Hungary to discuss Russian, Chinese vaccines

By Justin Spike Feb. 05, 2021 11:11 AM EST

FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, a man walks at an empty metro station in Prague, Czech Republic, during a night-time curfew imposed by the government that make it impossible to stage traditional New Year's celebrations. Reaching a milestone of one million confirmed cases, the battle against the pandemic is far from over in the Czech Republic. Amid warnings by experts against new contagious virus variants, one of the hardest hit European countries has been trying to avoid the mistakes of the past when soaring infections almost caused the collapse of the struggling health system. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, FILE)
Hard-hit Czech Republic reaches 1 million confirmed cases

By Karel Janicek Feb. 03, 2021 11:13 AM EST