Sunday Covid tally same as week earlier

Some 277 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in Czechia on Sunday, the same number as seven days earlier.

There were 808 people in hospital with the virus, down from over 1,000 the previous week.

The seven-day case incidence rate stood at 117 per 100,000 inhabitants on Sunday, which also represented a decline.

Since the coronavirus pandemic began over 4 million cases have been recorded in Czechia, which has a population of 10.7 million.