The Covid epidemic continues to accelerate in the Czech Republic. On Thursday, 2,110 confirmed cases were added, nearly a third more than last week. In the past seven days, laboratories monitored nearly 12,000 new infections, which represents an increase of about 1,000 cases compared to the previous week. The number of hospitalized patients is not increasing, and there are 717 patients infected with the virus in hospitals. This comes from the data of the Ministry of Health.
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Daily increases in new cases of coronavirus are increasing in the Czech Republic in a weekly comparison since Monday. More than 2,000 cases have been added in each of the past four days, the last of which occurred in early August.
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Besides, interest in tests is also growing. In the past seven days, the labs carried out nearly 48,400 tests, a week ago, it was about 44,000.
Their positivity increases, too. For preventive testing, it hit nearly eight percent on Thursday, a week ago it was less than five percent. The most common diagnostic tests performed by people who show symptoms revealed infection with the virus in more than 32 percent of the people tested. It was an increase of 1.5 percentage points.
In the case of epidemiological tests, which are performed, for example, due to contact with an infected person, positivity increased by about one percentage point above 19 percent.
There are 112 infected per 100,000 residents in the past seven days. Thus, the so-called number of accidents has increased by ten since last week. The worst case was in the Hradec Kralove region, where over the past week it recorded 133 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. On the contrary, in the Karlovy Vary region, the infection rate is 95, which is the lowest in the Czech Republic.
The number of hospitalized patients with coronavirus did not change significantly during the week. Last Thursday, there were 761 patients in hospitals, 44 more than now. But the number of seriously ill patients has increased. A week ago there were 24 people, currently 35.
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Since the beginning of the epidemic in March 2020, nearly 4.06 million cases of infection have been confirmed in the Czech Republic. This number does not include cases in which a person has been repeatedly infected. There are more than 313,000 suspected re-infection cases. So far, 40,898 people have died of coronavirus in the country. There have been 43 casualties in the past seven days, compared to 55 in the previous week.
6.89 million people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in the Czech Republic. 4.3 million people received the first booster dose, and more than 193,000 people received the second. In the past seven days, 30,616 people have been vaccinated, compared to more than 32,000 in the previous week.
Modified vaccines for new variants of the coronavirus from Pfizer / BioNTech arrived in the Czech Republic this week. On Thursday, for example, College Thomayer Hospital in Prague started vaccinations with them, and it has about 2,800 doses available.
