Prague There is a second wave of coronavirus epidemic in the Czech Republic. This was stated on Sunday by the government commissioner for science and research in healthcare Roman Prymula on the Czech television program Otázky Václava Moravec.
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According to him, the same number of hospitalizations can be in hospitals in 14 days to three weeks as in spring. Should the infection spread as explosively as before, hospitals could reach the capacity limits of reserved beds for patients with covid-19. If no measures were taken, Czech hospitals could be at the limit capacity at the end of October, he said.
According to Prymula, the announcement of the second wave is a formal matter, but the current situation can already be considered. We are now seeing a higher increase in confirmed cases than in the first wave, and there was a lag between current growths and those in the spring, Prymula said.
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He added that at present it is necessary to “flatten” the infection curve. If this fails in about three weeks, the covid wards could reopen in hospitals, Prymula said.
Measures that would dramatically change the curve to make the number of infections drop immediately, according to Prymula. However, it is clear that short-range air transmission dominates. He described Prymul as the singing of people side by side. Therefore, people should avoid celebrations for at least a month in order to reduce the growing curve of those infected.
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Evolutionary biologist and parasitologist Jaroslav Flegr is also worried about the increase in those infected. He said on CNN Prima News on Sunday that in a week, up to 4,000 people in the Czech Republic will be tested positively every day, and in two weeks, even 10,000 people will be infected daily. “No more epidemic measures will be taken, so it will simply be,” Flegr said in the debate. Mortality is expected to be around one percent. According to him, there are now different strains of the virus among the people than a month ago.
However, epidemiologist Jiří Beran does not agree with Flegr. He likens mortality to a common respiratory disease. “I’m not afraid. Mortality is declining. At the moment, it is around 0.2 tenths of a percent, “said Beran in Partia.
The number of new cases of covid-19 in the Czech Republic is growing almost the fastest in the European Union. On Saturday, a record 1541 more people were infected in the Czech Republic, which is almost 100 more than on Friday. On days off, laboratories tend to test less.
The Ministry of Health will publish Saturday’s number of tests on Sunday evening. There are now more than 13,700 infected in the country, mostly with a mild course of the disease. 297 people were hospitalized with covid-19 on Saturday, 69 of them in severe condition.
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