The corona situation in the Czech Republic remains tense, in March more infected people died than ever before in the country.
Politicians fear a further increase over the Easter holidays.
Prague - Not only Germany is currently struggling with high numbers of infections, the Czech Republic has also had to take tough measures to get the dynamics of the pandemic under control for weeks.
Doctors already had to take an extraordinary measure in February, and March was then overshadowed primarily by a new Corona record.
Corona in the Czech Republic: Country has the most deaths since the beginning of the pandemic
Last March was the month with the most corona deaths in the Czech Republic since the beginning of the pandemic.
As
the figures from the Ministry of Health in Prague showed
on
Thursday (April 1), 5779 people who had previously tested positive for the Sars-CoV-2 virus died.
That was around 800 more than at the height of the second wave in November, the worst month yet in terms of the death toll.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been a total of 26,586 deaths in the Czech Republic with its around 10.7 million inhabitants.
Politicians in the country see a particularly high risk, as in Germany, in the upcoming Easter holidays.
For this reason, Health Minister Jan Blatny called on citizens to
comply with
the corona protective measures despite the
warm weather.
"If people shake off the chains over Easter, then we are facing a big mess," said the 51-year-old in front of MPs in Prague.
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People are still only allowed to leave their residential area in exceptional cases.
The mayor of Prague, Zdenek Hrib, criticized this: "From an epidemiological point of view, it makes little sense to squeeze more than a million people into so little space," wrote the medical graduate on Twitter.
Although the current number of infections is steadily falling across the country, the incidence and the number of infections remain at a very high level.
More than 400 people per 100,000 inhabitants are currently infected.
And the coronavirus is also spreading faster and faster in Poland.
On March 31, over 30,000 new cases were registered there.
In comparison: in Germany the so-called seven-day incidence is 134.2, more than 24,000 cases were reported on April 1st.