Covid epidemic continues to accelerate

Covid-19 epidemic in Czechia continues to accelerate. Some 17,100 new cases of the virus were recorded in the country over the past seven days, about 1,300 more than the previous week. For the first time since April, the daily increase in new cases exceeded 4,000 this week.

On Thursday, laboratories detected 3,670 new cases of Covid-19, slightly fewer than in the previous days. The number of people hospitalized with Covid rose by about 370 week-on-week to 1,361, with 46 of them in serious condition.