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New cases of coronavirus have decreased again

The reproduction number, indicating the rate of spread of the disease, remained at 0.90. It remains below one, which means slowing down the epidemic, for 14 days. To date, the number of newly infected people has not changed to 100,000 people per week, remaining at 11 on Saturday.

There are slightly fewer hospitalized with the covid compared to the past few days, but there are slightly more of them last Saturday. It emerged from the data on the web Ministry of Health.

Since March 1, when the first cases of the disease were confirmed in the country, statistics have shown that 1.674 million people have been infected with coronavirus. Most were cured, 30,374 people with confirmed coronavirus died. Recently, however, the number of victims is minimal, the last is registered by the Ministry of Health on July 21. According to current data, there have been 12 deaths with covid in the entire first holiday month.

The number of patients hospitalized with coronavirus has remained below 50 since the beginning of July, but has swung through it on Monday, but has fallen slightly since then. On Saturday, 44 patients with covid required care in hospitals. Compared to Friday, there were six less of them, on the contrary, compared to last Saturday, there were six more.

Antigen and PCR tests at coronavirus labs on Saturday performed nearly 88,000, about 1,600 less than a week ago. In the most numerous category of tests performed – preventive and comprehensive – the share of positive compared to the previous week fell to 0.07 percent from 0.09. In the so-called epidemiological indication of tests, where people are tested, for example, for possible contact with the infected, the proportion of positive increased to 0.25 percent from 0.18. The proportion of confirmed cases in the so-called diagnostic indication, when people with symptoms, for example, are tested, fell from 0.89 to 0.84 percent.

As the number of people vaccinated decreased compared to last Saturday, the number of people vaccinated also decreased. According to the ministry, paramedics administered 25,909 doses of covid vaccine on Saturday, injecting approximately 7,400 more a week earlier. The number of administered doses for the entire period of vaccination, which began in the Czech Republic at the end of last year, exceeded 10.3 million.

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