Tests confirmed over 500 infections per day for the third time in a week. The disease is spreading most around Prague and in Silesia – ČT24 – Czech Television
In the regions, the relative number of new cases of covid-19 ranges from 9 per hundred thousand inhabitants per week in the Hradec Králové and Liberec regions to 50 per hundred thousand inhabitants per seven days in Prague. Of the districts, the disease is now the most widespread in the Beroun region with 83 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants per week and in the Opava region with 80 infected per hundred thousand inhabitants.
Likewise, the number of infected people, which the tests revealed on Friday, differs differently. The Moravian-Silesian Region and Prague contributed almost two-fifths to the nationwide notification of 502 cases, there were 98 positive tests in the capital, and one more in the Moravian-Silesian Region. Another 85 were in the Central Bohemian Region. In the Liberec region, on the other hand, there was only one case, in the Karlovy Vary region there were five.
Due to the number of infected people, it has risen compared to the previous Friday, while hospital beds are less occupied. 169 patients infected with covid-19 are hospitalized, compared to 179 at the end of the last working week. 27 patients are in severe condition – also less than a week ago. Last Friday was the peak in hospitals so far, since then the number of hospitalized and the number of those in severe condition has been declining slightly.