Czech Republic coronavirus updates, June 19: 118 new cases Thursday, most in two months

The Czech Republic registered 118 new COVID-19 cases across the country on Thursday, according to the latest figures from the Czech Health Ministry published this morning.

The daily rise in new Czech COVID-19 cases yesterday was the highest in almost two months, since April 21.

The Czech Republic conducted 4,039 COVID-19 tests on Thursday, roughly the same number as the previous three days; the number of confirmed cases more than doubled, however. On April 21, when 133 new cases were confirmed, a total of 8,341 tests were performed.

According to experts, the vast majority of new COVID-19 cases are the result of localized outbreaks, which are at the moment in the capital city of Prague and the Karviná region in Moravia-Silesia, where an outbreak at a coal mine has resulted in around 500 COVID-19 cases to date.

On Tuesday, Prague’s Deputy Mayor Petr Hlubuček confirmed that he had been diagnosed with COVID-19. Prague’s city council, along with other officials Hlubuček came into contact with, are now in quarantine.

In Karviná, local health officials have ordered testing on all workers at the OKD coal mine, which employees more than 8,000 people.

However: Vojtěch was careful to note that these restrictions would not be removed in areas of localized outbreaks, which would include Prague and Karviná unless the situation in these areas changes over the next two weeks.

To date, there have been 10,823 total cases of COVID-19 in the Czech Republic since the beginning of the outbreak in mid-March.

A total of 334 COVID-19-related deaths have been reported over that span, along with 7,446 recoveries. There are currently 2,506 known active COVID-19 cases in the Czech Republic; 136 of those patients are currently being hospitalized.