Coronavirus in Prague: 10,426 cases occurred in a week
The epidemic in Prague continues to slow down, revealing 10,426 coronavirus infections in the last seven days. One week earlier, there were over 13,400 confirmed cases, when it was the first time since August that the number of new infections had fallen in a week-on-week comparison. The incidence number is also significantly lower. To date, there are 781 cases of infection in every 100,000 Praguers in the last seven days, last Friday it was 1104 cases. This follows from the data of the Ministry of Health.
The numbers of newly detected cases include weekly breakdowns are still high, holding above a thousand, only on Sunday there were fewer cases. Since Monday, when laboratories detected almost 1,900 infected, the number of new positives has been declining, on Thursday it was less than 1400.
During the entire epidemic, the Ministry of Health has registered 266,229 cases of infection in Prague since last March, of which 3,071 people with confirmed covid-19 died. In the past seven days, 48 people died with coronavirus in Prague, a week earlier there had been 72 deaths. However, with later updates, data from recent days usually grows.
Paramedics in the capital have administered over 2.62 million doses of the vaccine since the beginning of the covid vaccination at the end of last December. In the last week, 73,200 people were vaccinated, about 2,100 more in the week. Another vaccination center will open in Prague on Monday, in the Kotva shopping center. There will be a total of 80 vaccination centers in Prague, roughly one-sixth of all 460 in the Czech Republic.
Until the end of October 1306, the Prague hygienists imposed a fine of 3.72 million crowns by checking the measures against the spread of the disease this year. For the whole of last year, it was 854 fines for 3.04 million crowns. This was stated by the director of the Prague hygiene station, Zdenka Jágrová, at the Metropolitan Medical Congress this week.