New coronavirus infections in Prague decreased by a fifth in the past week
The number of newly infected with the coronavirus in Prague began to decrease in the past week, having stagnated a week earlier. Over the past seven days, there have been 1,654 confirmed cases in the metropolis, which is a fifth less than in the previous week, when there were more than 2,000 new infections. This is according to data on the website of the Ministry of Health. Five people died of covid-19 in the capital in the past week, eight a week earlier.
The daily number of cases of coronavirus infection in Prague, as in the whole of the Czech Republic, began to rise this year at the turn of May and June. Then they increased in the metropolis, moving in the tens of people, while in the last week of July they reached almost 700 infected per day.
It began to slow down in August, and in the past week the additions on working days were always below 300. The number of 235 cases per week in Prague is the highest since the end of June.
Given that the number of infected people is decreasing in the capital, but also in other regions, Prague remains the region with the highest number of new cases per week per inhabitant.
The so-called incidence number, which is the number of cases of infection in the last seven days per 100,000 inhabitants, was 124 in Prague as of today, a week ago it was 30 higher.
Only slightly lower with a value of 121 is the weekly incidence in the Hradec Králové region, the lowest is currently in the Karlovy Vary region, where there were 81 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last week.
Interest in vaccination against covid-19 increased slightly in the past week in Prague. 5,736 people came for the vaccine, compared to 5,369 a week earlier. Most people get vaccinated with the second booster dose, which is available from mid-July.
Since the start of the covid-19 epidemic in March 2020, more than 536,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded in Prague. 3,659 people have died with covid-19.