Coronavirus in Prague: almost 34,000 cases per week, the epidemic is weakening
The coronavirus epidemic is already weakening in Prague. On Tuesday, the second highest daily increase in cases during the epidemic was, but compared to the previous week, the number of confirmed diseases decreased by about a tenth. After the previous increase, the incidence also started to decrease, ie the number of cases per week per 100,000 inhabitants. This follows from the data of the Ministry of Health. However, the number of hospitalized with covid-19 in Prague hospitals has doubled in the last three weeks.
There were only 8,839 confirmed cases in the capital of Tuesday’s 7,074 confirmed cases on Wednesday, January 26. In the days of this week, with the announcement on Tuesday, the increase was already lower than a week earlier. Over the past seven days, tests have shown 33,827 infectionsa week earlier there were 37,600.
The wave of the epicemic caused by the omicron variant hit the metropolis first of all regions, is now moving to other regions as expected. The incidence in Prague was thus the highest among the regions for several weeks, but according to today’s figures, the Hradec Králové, Zlín and Central Bohemia regions came before the capital. At the same time, the incidence in the metropolis is already declining, today 2534 cases per week per 100,000 inhabitants are almost 300 less than a week earlier.
Prague hospitals took care of 328 people with covid-19, 52 of them added in the last day. According to the latest doctors from the Ministry of Health, Covid’s patients in hospitals in the capital are about twice as many as three weeks ago. During the same period, the number of hospitalized in intensive care units increased by about a third to 63 people.
In the capital, tests since the beginning of the epidemic last March confirmed 409,747 cases of coronavirus, 3,333 people with covid-19 died. More than 3.1 million vaccines against Covid-19 paramedics in the metropolis. Vaccination is usually a two-dose dose and people can come for an extra booster dose.