8:40 – Army sampling teams at OKD have started taking samples for coronavirus tests again from miners and mining company employees. Further surface testing will last until Wednesday. Employees of the ČSM Mine who had a negative result in the first round of tests or did not show up for testing for various reasons come to the tests first. Company spokeswoman Naďa Chattová told ČTK today. More info
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8:36 – To date, laboratories have performed more than 618,000 tests. On Friday, almost 4,000 people were tested, with 3.29 percent positive. This follows from revised data from the ministry. On Thursday, the proportion of those infected was 3.75 percent and on Wednesday, 3.56 percent.
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8:35 – According to these statistics, the third most affected region in the Czech Republic is currently Mělnicko, where they have 23 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in the past week. A local outbreak appeared there in Čečelice. These are part-time workers of an agricultural company who are in a dormitory, and in ten of them tests showed covid-19.
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8:30 – There is also a local focus in Vlčnov in the Uherské Hradiště region. From Saturday, people in the village must wear mouth and nose protection in public transport and indoors. Mass events can take place with a maximum of 500 people, it is necessary to keep the spacing. The multidisciplinary intensive care unit of the Uherské Hradiště Hospital remains closed, where tests in recent days confirmed covid-19 in ten employees and one patient. Uherskohradišťsko reports almost 18 cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days.
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8:24 – The worst situation is currently in the Moravian-Silesian region, where hygienists on Friday extended anti-epidemic measures to the entire region. The covid-19 disease appeared, for example, in the Ostrava Municipal Hospital, at the children’s camp in Štramberk or in various companies in the Ostrava, Novojičín and Frýdek-Místek regions. However, there are also local outbreaks in Vlčnov in the Uherské Hradiště region or in Čečelice in the Mělník region.
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In the last seven days, about 47 infected people have increased per 100,000 inhabitants in the Karviná region, which is the most of all regions in the Czech Republic. In the neighboring Frýdek-Místek region there are 37 infected per 100,000 inhabitants, in the Novojičín region approximately 15 infected per 100,000 inhabitants and in the Ostrava region there are less than ten.
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8:22 – There are now a record 4764 coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic. By about 30 cases, the current maximum from the first half of April was exceeded. On Saturday, laboratories in the Czech Republic discovered 113 new cases, the daily increase for the fifth time in a row exceeded one hundred. Since March, 13,855 people have been infected in the country, 8733 have been cured, and 358 victims have been killed. According to data from the Ministry of Health as of today, 00:30.
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