A third of Czech households suffered financial difficulties due to pandemic

The first wave of the coronavirus pandemic negatively affected the income of close to a third of Czech households, according to the results of a survey conducted by the agency Perfect Crowd.

Eight percent of respondents said they had lost their jobs as a result of the lockdown, twenty percent had a lower income. 43 percent of respondents said they had to dip into their savings to make ends meet, 4 percent had to take a loan.

The crisis hit low-income groups, people with a lower education and the inhabitants of smaller towns and villages the hardest.