One-quarter week-on-week fall in new Covid cases Tuesday

Some 6,708 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, a fall of around one-quarter on the same day last week. The number of suspected reinfections, 1,253, was also down on the previous Tuesday. The number of tests being conducted has also been falling.

The seven-day case incidence dropped to 349 per 100,000 on Tuesday.

Daily figures have been falling in the country since around the start of February.

There are 1,656 patients with the coronavirus in Czech hospitals. A week ago there were over 2,000.