Week-on-week fall in new Covid cases again recorded

Some 3,441 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Czechia on Monday, a fall of around 300 on the same day last week. It was the fifth day in succession that there was a week-on-week decline in newly recorded cases.

However, the number of people in hospital with Covid in the country has risen to 1,145, of whom 37 are in a critical condition.

The seven-day case incidence rate is 151 per 100,000 inhabitants.

Infection numbers in Czechia began rising at the start of June and continued to do so until last week.

Author: Ian Willoughby