Covid-19: number of new cases lowest in nearly a year

The Czech Republic registered 42 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, which is the lowest daily increase over nearly a year, suggest the Ministry of Health Data. On average, there were less than 13 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the past seven days.

The number of new Covid-19 cases has been steadily decreasing since early March, when the daily increases reached nearly 17,000. Around 1.67 million people in the Czech Republic contracted the virus since the pandemic hit the country last March and 30,226 people died of Covid related complications.