Number of people hospitalized with Covid growing

The number of people hospitalized with Covid in Prague has doubled in the past three weeks, the Health Ministry reported. Their number jumped by 52 to 328 on Wednesday. The number of Covid patients requiring intensive care was up by a third over the same period. Nationwide the number of Covid patients in hospital has jumped by 800 in the past week to around 3,000.

On Thursday laboratories registered 37, 662 new cases of Covid-19 and 6,550 reinfections.