Tuesday sees highest one-day jump in new Covid-19 cases

There were 4,457 newly detected cases of Covid-19 in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, the highest one-day jump in numbers since the first cases were recorded in the country on March 1. A record number of new cases, 856, were recorded in the capital.

Over 90,000 cases have been registered in the Czech Republic in total and the number currently affected is 40,440, according to official Ministry of Health data. Thirteen people died with the coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total number of deaths to 794. Minister of Health Roman Prymula is due to announce a raft of new measures on Friday aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus.