Andrej Babis
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

FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2020, file photo, health care workers transport a COVID-19 patient from an intensive care unit at a hospital in Kyjov to a hospital in Brno, Czech Republic. Lofty hopes that the crisis would encourage a new and tighter bloc to face a common challenge have given way to the reality of division: The pandemic has set member nation against member nation, and many capitals against the EU itself, as symbolized by the disjointed, virtual meetings leaders now hold. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
EU and COVID-19: When a vaccine only adds to the trouble

By Raf Casert Apr. 11, 2021 03:16 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

Marie Vytopilova, wife of the late Jaromir Vytopil, stands in a bookstore in Pelhrimov, Czech Republic, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Some 25,000 have been killed by COVID-19 in the hard-hit Czech Republic. Jaromir Vytopil was one of them. His everyday presence in the small Czech town of Pelhrimov was something everybody took for granted for seven decades as he had served the generations of readers. The longest serving Czech bookseller, passed away on Nov 9. 2020, at age of 83. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Longest-serving bookseller among 25,000 Czech virus victims

By Karel Janicek Mar. 28, 2021 03:08 AM EDT

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

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 send 30,000 police, soldiers to enforce travel limits

By Karel Janicek Mar. 01, 2021 03:14 PM 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

European Council President Charles Michel, left, and Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during welcoming ceremony ahead of a ceremonious meeting that marks 30 years of central Europe's informal body of cooperation between Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and The Czech Republic, called the Visegrad Group, at the Wawel Castle in Krakow, Poland, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Central European leaders push for faster vaccine deliveries

By Monika Scislowska Feb. 17, 2021 10:50 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

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

Health workers backed by trade unions protest outside the Hospital Clinico San Carlos in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. The workers are calling for better working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic while defending the Spanish national heath service. (AP Photo/Paul White)
The Latest: Australia's 2nd largest city to begin lockdown

By The Associated Press Feb. 11, 2021 04:08 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

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

People recieve their Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination inside Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Salisbury Cathedral opened its doors for the second time as a venue for the Sarum South Primary Care Network COVID-19 Local Vaccination Service. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Delay in Pfizer vaccine shipments frustrate Europe, Canada

By Raf Casert Jan. 20, 2021 02:35 PM EST

Czechs to make mandatory minimum of local food in stores

Jan. 20, 2021 08:25 AM EST
PRAGUE (AP) — The lower house of the Czech Parliament approved on Wednesday a requirement that supermarkets carry a minimum share of local food, a move to be...

A medical worker wearing protective gears takes sample at a coronavirus testing site in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. South Korea has confirmed its first cases of a more contagious variant of COVID-19 that was first identified in the United Kingdom. (Park Ju-sung/Newsis via AP)
The Latest: Japan's PM seeks to enforce virus measures

By The Associated Press Dec. 27, 2020 01:39 AM EST