The parties in the coalition government have agreed on rules for introducing kurzarbeit, or short-time working. Under their proposals, the government would only pay part of workers' salaries in the event of a major threat to the Czech economy.

Austria will issue a warning against travelling to Prague due to the current spread of coronavirus starting Monday, Die Presse Austrian paper reported on Thursday. Austria requires a negative Covid-19 test result no older than 72 hours from travelers coming from the risk countries and regions once they arrive in Austria, otherwise they must be quarantined.

Despite facing a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, confidence improved in all the monitored segments in September, except for industry. Despite favourable developments this month, total confidence remains significantly below pre-Covid levels and is likely to deteriorate again next month.

The Netherlands is the latest EU state to add the Czech Republic to its list of high-risk areas for Covid-19, the Czech Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday. Previously, the Netherlands had only listed Prague in its list of high-risk regions.

The Czech government coalition agreed the framework of a new permanent scheme that would partially subsidise salaries of employees on reduced hours, a version of a German short-time work programme, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.

Flowmon Networks, a global network intelligence leader, announced that the National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB) has supercharged its partner protection ecosystem with Flowmon's cybersecurity incident detection and network data collection capabilities.

The antivirus giant took the lead in switching to home office in March, and now they are planning to offer this arrangement permanently for those employees who are interested.