The incidence did not change against New Year’s Eve on Sunday, there are still 336 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in the last week. This follows from information on the website of the Ministry of Health.
Since the beginning of the epidemic in the Czech Republic last March, tests have confirmed more than 2.48 million cases of the disease, with 36,219 people dying with covid-19.
Thus, almost one in four Czechs became infected with coronavirus during the epidemic. However, the coronavirus variant omicron, which will probably predominate in the Czech Republic in the second half of January, will probably bend the numbers. Experts expect high numbers of new cases, and the hospitals of about 7,000 patients with covid are again at risk of being filled.
According to updated figures, hospitals cared for less than 3,000 patients with covid-19 on New Year’s Eve, and on New Year’s Eve the number decreased by another almost 300 to 2708. The last time fewer were hospitalized was on November 4. In serious condition, 570 are infected, at least since November 11.
Healthcare professionals gave 15.47 million doses of the vaccine
The seven-day incidence on New Year’s Eve increased for the first time in a month, but has not changed to date. The highest remains in Prague, where in the last seven days there are 410 new cases of the disease per 100,000 inhabitants. Coronavirus is the lowest in the Karlovy Vary region with an incidence of 198.
The lab performed about 9,400 antigenic and PCR tests on Saturday, up from 18,900 a week ago. Among the tested, a high number of people remain confirmed. On Saturday, coronavirus detected nearly 22 percent of the samples in diagnostic tests that check people with symptoms of the disease. Epidemiologically indicated tests, performed for example for contact with the infected person, showed 17.5 percent positive among those tested.
Healthcare professionals in the Czech Republic have so far given 15.47 million doses of covid-19 vaccination, and 6.65 million people have completed vaccination. So far, 2.4 million people have a booster dose that improves the effect of the completed vaccination. 42 people received the vaccine on New Year’s Eve, and even fewer were vaccinated a week ago on the first day of Christmas.
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