Czech Republic sees highest daily increase in COVID cases

Healthcare workers have identitied 57,195 cases of coronavirus infection in the Czech Republic, the highest daily number recorded during the pandemic, Report informs referring to TASS.

This figure is almost twice the number of infected people detected in the country on February 1 last week.

The increase in cases is associated with the spread of the omicron strain and its subspecies BA.2. At the moment, there are 2,483 coronavirus patients for every 100,000 residents of the country.

Overall, the Czech Republic has reported 3,100,462 coronavirus cases and 37,281 deaths since the pandemic began.