Coronavirus: Five Czech districts now ‘orange’ (medium-risk), like Prague

Prague is no longer the only Czech region designated a “medium-risk” or “orange” zone for contracting the coronavirus under the nation’s so-called traffic light map system. On Friday, government health officials designated five additional districts at that level.

Four of the newly “orange” districts – Beroun, Kladno, Kolín, Prague-East – are in Central Bohemia while one, Uherské Hradiště, is in southern Moravia.  There opening hours of catering facilities (restaurants, bars and cafés, etc.) will be limited as of Monday, September 14. As in Prague now, restaurants and bars must also be closed between midnight and 6 a.m.

A record 1,382 new cases of coronavirus were detected in the Czech Republic on Thursday, the third day this week with numbers exceeding the 1,100 mark, according to Ministry of Health data. In recent weeks, the country has registered higher growth in Covid-19 cases than have all but seven of 55 European countries.