Covid infection rates, hospitalisations and deaths down

Some 282 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Czechia on Saturday, a fall of 60 on the same day a week earlier. There were 940 people in hospital with the coronavirus on Saturday. This was the lowest figure seen since the middle of September and was roughly 450 fewer than seven days previously.

According to data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there were 66 Covid deaths in the last week. In the previous week over twice that number, 138, died with the virus.