8:23 – Due to a government regulation, most stores in the Czech Republic remained closed today. Exceptions are gas stations, pharmacies, shops in places of increased concentration of passengers (airports, railway stations), shops in medical facilities.
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They can also be open today sellers of reverent goods and stonemasons, the government granted them an exemption because of Dušičky.
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8:21 – On Slovakia on the second day, nationwide testing of the population for coronavirus continues. Unlike Saturday, the municipality does not report queues of people waiting or trouble.
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8:16 – The new coronavirus has succeeded where animal rights activists have failed: for example, in South America Peru canceled bullfighting, which there is even more popular than football. The country’s most famous bullfight, the Feria del Señor de los Milagros, to be held in the Acho arenas in Lima, has been canceled to prevent the spread of covid-19. It is the first time since 1946.
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8:13 – The number of infected increased the most in the past week to Benešov region, where approximately 1303 new cases of covid-19 per 100,000 population have been reported in the last seven days. The second highest increase was in the Pelhřimov region, where 1,097 new cases of infection per capita were confirmed per week.
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8:11 – The number of people with covid-19 who ended up in hospital also increased significantly in October. At the end of September, only about a thousand were hospitalized, while according to the latest data from the ministry as of October 30, there were almost 7,700 people in hospitals, of which 1,137 were in serious condition.
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For most infected people, however, the covid-19 is lighter. Currently, more than 188,000 people suffer from the disease and only about four percent of them ended up in hospitals.
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8:07 – The number of deaths from people infected with coronavirus on Saturday rose by 104, the lowest daily increase in deaths in 11 days.
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In contrast, the number of deaths on Friday was a record according to updated data from the ministry. Originally, the office stated that 121 more were killed on Friday, but now the ministry has changed the figure for Friday’s death to 176, which is the highest daily increase during the entire epidemic.
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In October, a total of more than 2,500 people died with covid-19, representing most of the 3,251 deaths since the beginning of the epidemic.
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8:00 – On Saturday, laboratories in the Czech Republic discovered 11,428 new cases of covid-19. That’s about a thousand less than last Saturday. Thus, the slightly favorable development of the spread of the disease continues.
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Already on Friday, the growth slowed down, when 13,606 newly infected people were recorded, by approximately 1,650 less than the previous Friday.
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Since March 1, when the first cases of covid-19 appeared in the Czech Republic, tests have confirmed the infection in more than 335,000 people. In October alone, the number of infected increased by about 264,000.
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