Some 20,000 vaccines against whooping cough to arrive in Czechia on Tuesday

A shipment of 20,000 vaccines against whooping cough from Canada will reach doctors within days, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said, adding that distributors expect to receive them on Tuesday.

Because of a high incidence of whooping cough, doctors have seen a growing interest in vaccinations in recent weeks, with more than 45,000 people getting inoculated against the disease, compared to 24,000 last year.

There were 1,494 new cases of whooping cough registered in Czechia last week, the biggest weekly increase since the start of this year. The total number of cases so far this year is 7,888, the most in one year since 1959, when the vaccine was introduced.