Since March, 164,422 people in the Czech Republic have been demonstrably infected with coronavirus; in October alone, more than 93,000 confirmed cases were added. The Czech Republic has had higher daily gains since the beginning of the month than much larger Germany, this week for the first time they crossed the 9000 mark.
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On Saturday, there were 4308 confirmed cases of covid-19 in the Czech Republic, 1360 less than at the same time on record Friday. At the weekend, however, it is usually less tested. On Friday, laboratories in the Czech Republic evaluated a record 37,825 tests, the current maximum from Wednesday was about 3,000 lower. There were 29.36 percent positive tests on Friday.
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The Minister of Health Roman Prymula (for YES) said at a press conference on Friday that the limit to which the Czech Republic needs to reach is a share below ten percent positive of all daily tests. According to Prymula, infections will increase for another ten days to two weeks. Experts say that about three to four percent of those infected will enter hospitals, of which about 20 percent will be in serious condition.
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The next 10 days will be critical
The time from diagnosis to severe symptoms that require hospitalization is between a week and ten days, so it can be expected that hospitalization and death will begin to increase next week, and especially the following week.
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The intensive care coordinator in the country, Vladimír Černý, said on Friday that the coming weeks will be extremely difficult for the Czech healthcare system, very demanding, especially for healthcare professionals, but there is no danger of the system collapsing.
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“He will still be relatively calm next week, but the next 14 days will be, the critical ones will be,” Prymula said in a video on Twitter. However, according to him, it was possible to significantly increase the capacity of beds in the normal mode, from 5,000 to 10,000, as well as ventilated beds from 1,000 to almost 1,500.
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“So I think we should stop this phase without any big problems. The bottleneck is the staff, we do everything to have enough staff,” he added.
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The death toll doubled in October
The number of deaths doubled in October. The health minister said on Saturday that if the government allowed the epidemic to take place without measures, there could be around 30,000 deaths.
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“If we take the number of deaths from the flu, we get somewhere at 1900 per year, whether we take any action or not,” he said why there is no need to take restrictive measures because of the flu. “That’s the main problem. That’s why we’re taking the measures, and it’s logical that if we made them very hard in the first wave, there were only a few hundred dead. We’ll be worse off at the moment, but it’s still significantly lower, than if we did nothing, “he said in another post on twitter.
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