Czech Republic coronavirus updates, August 19: 282 new cases, COVID-19 death toll crosses 400

There were 282 new COVID-19 cases reported in the Czech Republic yesterday and the overall death toll has crossed 400, according to the latest updates from the Czech Health Ministry posted this morning.

Since the beginning of the outbreak in March, there have now been a total of 20,483 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Czech Republic. There have been 15,148 confirmed recoveries and 401 COVID-19-related deaths in that span.

At present, there are 4,934 known active cases, a slight decrease over record highs posted last week.

The number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the Czech Republic has risen to 122. Due to the low number of hospitalizations, compared to the spring numbers, some expert have claimed that the virus has been weakening.

This week, however, a new locality has overtaken Prague and Frýdek-Místek as the Czech Republic’s most-affected locality per capita: Uherské Hradiště, which has seen about 48 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents over the past seven days.

The capital city, Prague, remains a prominent place for new COVID-19 cases: the city reported 29 new cases per 100,000 residents in the past week. Plzeň has reported 34 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past week, a rising hot spot in the country. Klatovy has reported 30 new cases per 100,000 and Frýdek-Místek has reported 26 new cases per 100,000.