Summer Covid wave in Czechia on the retreat

The latest statistics from the Ministry of Health suggest that the summer wave of Covid-19 infections is receding. Infection rates have been falling in terms of weekly comparison since July 28.

Whereas there were 12,693 cases detected over the past seven days, during the previous seven day period there were more than 15,000. Deaths were also down during the same period, from 94 to 58. A total of 1,049 coronavirus patients required hospitalisation on Thursday, nearly 20 percent less than on the same day last week.

However, testing rates fell as well. There were just below 50,000 PCR and antigen tests taken in testing facilities across the country over these past seven days, 7.600 less than during the previous seven day period.