Ministry revises Covid-19 numbers downward

The ministry of health said on Sunday evening that there were 3,479 currently known cases of Covid-19 in the Czech Republic. This was a major shift in the official coronavirus statistics as over 5,000 cases had been listed in the morning. At the same time the number of people who have recovered from the virus has jumped from 9,590 to 11,423. Health minister Adam Vojtěch had ordered an audit of the number of patients who no longer had Covid-19.

Ladislav Dušek, director of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics, said some hygiene stations in the regions had recently been busy combatting the epidemic in local outbreaks and updating data on the number of cured patients has not been a priority. The new numbers are the result of back-testing data, Mr. Dušek told Czech Television.