Wednesday Covid numbers see jump from previous week

Some 13,657 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, a rise of around 2,700 on the same day the previous week. The reproduction number for the virus remained at 1.18 while the national risk index was again at 75 points out of 100.

There are nearly 7,000 patients in Czech hospitals with the coronavirus, 1,432 of them in a critical condition.

Almost 20,000 Covid deaths have been registered since the virus was first detected in the country almost exactly a year ago.