Dear Friends and Colleagues, The situation with regard to the spread of the coronavirus in the Czech Republic is relatively stable and we believe that everything will return to normal during the summer months. Here you find the current measures valid since the 1st July 2020: https://www.mvcr.cz/mvcren/article/coronavirus-information-of-moi.aspx We recommend you to follow regularly the website […]
A number of deadly viruses are believed to have originated in bats, including Ebola and the original SARS. The indications are that the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 also made the jump from bats, most likely through an intermediary species. Radek Lučan of Department of Zoology (Charles University, Faculty of Science) says the answer lies in the animal’s robust […]
We have now a very fresh experience how the Covid-19 pandemic changed our lives. It has forced the academic community to leave its lecture halls empty, the students switched the lectures for the volunteer jobs in the front line. The face mask became an ordinary part of our daily „outfits“ and the social distancing a […]
There are many ways how to help under the pandemic time. Some of the foreign students of Charles University who stayed in Czech Republic collect information from their home countries regarding government policies that have been put in place in the wake of Covid-19. The countries of the focus were Greece, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out large numbers of volunteers across the country, offering help in a time of unprecedented crisis. Many offer skills as medical students, others sew the much-needed masks that have been required ever since the country went into lockdown. Still others volunteer to work as drivers and even pilots have joined […]
The Koronavirus COVID-19 app contains information on recommendations and directives, prevention, crisis preparation, expert psychological information for various target groups and situations, and a contact list of available information and crisis helplines and online resources. The app was created under the auspices of Charles University and with the cooperation of many bodies – the psychological […]
A team of the Faculty of Engineering at CZU Prague has designed a mask with a replaceable filter printed on a 3D printer that can help reduce the spread of the disease and which is already helping rescuers in the Central Bohemia Region and hospitals in Prague. Modified 3D print files are available for general […]
The research infrastructure LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ and its host institution – the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, – is offering part of its computing capacity for research projects which aim to fight against SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, starting April 1, 2020. A special web page has been created at https://covid.ufal.mff.cuni.cz, […]
A team of scientists from the Institute for Democracy & Economic Analysis (IDEA), a think-tank of the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences which is part of CERGE-EI (a joint workplace with Charles University) has offered its expertise to try and curb the negative economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In a new […]
One week after the approval of high-capacity testing, four teams of researchers from the BIOCEV centre have their hands full testing around 300 samples every day, including weekends. Samples are sent to the centre in Vestec from hospitals and care homes in Prague. BIOCEV, the biotechnological and biomedical centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (AS CR) […]