On Wednesday the government approved a series of new restrictions for the fight against SARS-CoV-2, which will affect most businesses as well as the lives of everyone in the Czech Republic. Manufacturing is not affected directly. 

On 14 October Jan Švejnar was a guest speaker at Forum 2000 Conference - an annual discussion of global political, intellectual, spiritual, and business leaders founded by former Czech President Václav Havel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, and philanthropist Yohei Sasakawa.

After a steady increase of Covid-19 infections and a series of less restrictive measures, the Czech Republic's government imposed a wide-ranging retail and travel lock-down effective as of 22 October, 2020. Unlike the measures imposed in March, the current restrictions are less intrusive as regards business operations, in particular cross-border travel. However, local retail, entertainment and hospitality businesses will be affected almost as heavily as in the spring.

Prague Airport has received the 2019 Airport Service Quality Award, presented annually by the Airports Council International (ACI) to the best airports with the highest provable level of customer satisfaction with the services provided. Prague Airport has defended its victory of last year, this time sharing the title of the best European airport in the category of 15 – 25 million handled passengers with the airports in Ankara and St. Petersburg. Prague Airport has also become one of only seven airports in the world to receive a special Roll of Excellence award, presented to airports with frequent success in the field of customer experience.    

As we get closer to an important data readout from our COVID-19 vaccine program, I wanted to speak directly to the billions of people, millions of businesses and hundreds of governments around the world that are investing their hopes in a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine to overcome this pandemic. I know there is a great deal of confusion regarding exactly what it will take to ensure its development and approval, and given the critical public health considerations and the importance of transparency, I would like to provide greater clarity around the development timelines for Pfizer’s and our partner BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine.

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