Record number of Covid cases on a Sunday

Laboratories in the Czech Republic registered 9, 292 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, a record number on a Sunday since the start of the epidemic. In a weekly comparison the numbers are up by 1,000 cases.

Over 5,800 people are currently hospitalized with Covid, of whom 947 require intensive care. The incidence number is at 1,201 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the space of seven days. According to the head of the Institute for Health Information and Statistics Ladislav Dušek, the epidemic should culminate in mid-December.