Coronavirus in Prague: 7627 cases per week, epidemic slowed
The covid-19 epidemic in Prague slowed after two weeks. In the past seven days, there were 7627 confirmed cases of infection, a week earlier there were almost 8200. The incidence number also decreased. In the last week, there are 571 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants in the capital, which is 43 lower than last Friday. This follows from the data of the Ministry of Health.
Daily outbreaks were lower week-on-week from Friday to Wednesday. The only exception was Thursday, when the laboratories confirmed 1,179 infected. A week earlier, there were less than a thousand on the same day. In Prague, where about 1.3 million people live, tests since the beginning of the epidemic in March last year have revealed approximately 493,500 infected.
Prague hospitals have cared for about two years of the epidemic about 20,500 patients with covid-19, of which over 5,200 were in intensive care units. The busiest hospitals in Prague were in the second half of March last year, when they took care of more than a thousand infected people at a time. Currently, the numbers of patients with covid-19 are around two stoves.
3,527 people have died of the disease in the capital so far. In the last seven days, there have been 12 victims. In a week-on-week comparison, this is a decrease of three deaths. However, data from recent days may change during further updates.
Vaccination
Interest in vaccinations has increased slightly. Paramedics last week they administered 4,906 doses of the vaccine, which was almost 400 more than a week earlier. Most of it was the third booster dose, for which about 3,900 people have arrived since last Friday.
Vaccine-19 vaccines in the metropolis have come out since December 2020, when vaccination began, more than 3.2 million. Almost 1.2 million people received two doses of vaccination in Prague, and almost 707,000 people received a booster dose.