Monday Covid cases one-quarter down on week earlier

Some 6,553 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Monday, which was a fall of around one-quarter on the same day a week earlier. There was a similar fall in suspected reinfections, to 1,275. Testing was also down.

The seven-day case incidence rate declined to 370 per 100,000.

On Monday there were 1,641 people in Czech hospitals with the coronavirus, roughly 500 fewer than a week earlier.