Czech Republic Reports Single-Day Increase in COVID-19 Infections

Czech Republic has reported 11,984 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, the highest daily rise since the outbreak.

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The Killid Group

21 Oct 2020

Czech Republic Reports Single-Day Increase in COVID-19 Infections

A man wearing gas mask sits on a metro train as other passengers wear faces masks, in Prague, on Sept. 22, 2020.The Czech Republic and Slovakia are set to declare states of emergency this week to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the prime ministers of the EU neighbors said on Monday after a sharp rise in cases. (AFP/Michal Cizek )

At least 193,946 cases have been confirmed in the country since the pandemic reached the country, according to data released by Czech health officials early on Wednesday.

At least 1,619 people have died since the time the pandemic entered the Central-European country.

Czech has been recently struggling to cope with the rising number of infections throughout the country.

According to the European Center for Disease Control, as cited by CNN, the Czech Republic has the worst infection rate in Europe, with more than 900 infections per 100,000 people, in the past 14 days.

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