Number of Covid patients in ICUs up ahead of “critical week”

There were 1,728 Covid patients in intensive care in Czech hospitals on Sunday, a rise of 155 on the same day the previous week. The minister of health, Jan Blatný, has said the coming week will be the most critical in terms of the country’s ICUs’ ability to cope with people with the virus.

The total number of people in hospital with the coronavirus was nearly 8,000 on Sunday, which was almost 500 more than the week before. At the end of January the number hospitalised was considerably fewer at roughly 5,500.

The number of fresh Covid cases registered on Sunday was 3,923, a week-on-week fall of 660.