Tuesday Covid infections figure double that of previous week

Some 1,181 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, around twice the number recorded the same day last week. The number of people in hospital with the coronavirus was roughly 150, a rise of 30 in one week.

The number of known infections began climbing again in the Czech Republic at the start of June but this has accelerated in recent days. This has been blamed on the relatively infectious BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron.

Monday was the first day to see over 1,000 cases since the start of May.