Coronavirus epidemic receding in Czechia

The coronavirus epidemic is receding in Czechia, the Czech News Agency reported on Monday citing data from the Ministry of Health. While daily infections were growing in week-on-week terms in September, the first week of October saw week-on-week detection of positive cases fall also during working days for the first time since the end of August.

However, the incidence number – the average number of cases per 100,000 people over the past seven days – remains largely unchanged, lying at a nationwide average of 168. The Hradec Králové Region was most affected, with an average of 201 cases. It was also at the University Hospital of Hradec Králové that the second case of the new fast-spreading Omicron variant BA.2.75, nicknamed “Centaurus”, was sequenced in mid-September. Meanwhile, the Karlovy Vary Region had the lowest incidence number – 112.