Czech Republic coronavirus updates, August 14: 330 new cases, most since April 3

There were 330 new COVID-19 cases in the Czech Republic yesterday, according to the latest figures posted by the Czech Health Ministry this morning.

The daily rise yesterday of new COVID-19 cases in the Czech Republic was the highest in more than four months, since 334 new cases were confirmed on April 3, and the third-highest tally since the beginning of the outbreak in mid-March.

In total, there have now been 19,401 reported COVID-19 cases in the Czech Republic since March. About 70% of those cases (13,574) have been confirmed recovered, and there have been 391 COVID-19-related deaths, leaving a record-high 5,436 known active cases in the country.

Since Tuesday, no new COVID-19-related deaths have been reported. The number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the Czech Republic has remained at 131, with 24 considered to be in serious condition.

Since the beginning of the outbreak, the highest daily tally of COVID-19 cases has been 377, reported on March 27. The rise has exceeded 300 just six times over the past five months, but now twice in the past week, following 323 new cases reported last Friday.

Prague has seen a notable increase in new cases this week, and now reports just under 30 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past seven days.

The capital is the second most-affected area of the Czech Republic at the moment, following Frýdek-Místek (42 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past week). However, Frýdek-Místek has seen a large drop in new cases over the past few days.

Klatovy (23 cases), Havlíčkův Brod (23 cases), Příbram (21 cases), and Prague-East (21 cases) have also reported more than 20 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents in the past week.

According to the Czech Ministry of Health, 71 Czech residents returning from Croatia last week tested positive for COVID-19. The number of travelers suspected of bringing the virus back home is still only a tiny portion of the total cases; no other country sent more than 10 travelers back to the Czech Republic with COVID-19 in the past week.