At least 4 million infected with Covid since start of pandemic

At least four million people in Czechia have had covid since the epidemic first broke out in spring 2020, according to Ministry of Health data. The first cases of covid infection in the Czech Republic were confirmed on March 1, 2020. Since then, tests have revealed 4,002,616 infected people, which does not include reinfections.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, 40,587 people who tested positive have died. According to previously published data from the Czech Statistical Office, covid was the most common cause of death last year.