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In the Czech Republic, 196 people died on Friday from complications from the Covid-19 disease, bringing to 4,526 the death toll from the coronavirus epidemic that broke out in early March, according to a statement released Saturday on the website. of the Ministry of Health.
The number of confirmed infections is currently 169,367. 8,276 people need hospital treatment, 1,180 of which have been classified as serious by doctors. These numbers are also increasing moderately, possibly stagnant.
Vladimír Cerny, national coordinator of intensive hospital treatments, said Friday afternoon that the intensive care units of hospitals, which also treat coronavirus cases, are working under great pressure, are extremely stressed, but can still admit new patients. . According to him, at the moment, it is a proven and working system that entire hospitals automatically redirect critically ill patients who belong to them to less congested hospitals.
Laboratory tests conducted on Friday revealed 11,549 new coronavirus infections, about 1,700 fewer than on Thursday. The exact number of tests performed on Friday has yet to be announced, but in recent days, between 32 and 34 percent of them are giving positive results, which experts consider a very high proportion. This week, an average of 42,000 screenings were made in the Czech Republic as of Thursday.
Ladislav Dusek, director of the Office of Health Information and Statistics, said the spread of the epidemic was 1.01 on Friday. Prime Minister Andrej Babis has previously said that the authorities will ease the restrictions introduced in October if this indicator falls below 0.8.
The Czech Republic is currently in a state of emergency until November 20, restricting retail trade, a full range of services, and free movement. Wearing a mask is mandatory everywhere. Restaurants have closed, schools have switched to distance education, cultural and sporting events are on hiatus. National football and hockey tournaments restarted at the end of the week with strict hygiene standards. According to a government decree, from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., Czechs can leave their place of residence only with certain specific exceptions, such as trips to work or a health problem.
Many infected in Poland
The number of people hospitalized for the coronavirus in Poland has risen to more than 20,000, and on Saturday Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is looking to build another 6,000 hospital beds.
According to the Ministry of Health, 20,249 of those infected need hospital treatment and 1,813 patients are connected to a ventilator. There are currently 10,647 free hospital beds and 544 ventilators available nationwide.
Under the above regulations, one or more temporary hospitals will be established in all Polish provinces at the end of November, the first of which, the Warsaw Hospital, received patients for the first time on Thursday.
The Polish prime minister, who visited a temporary hospital in the International Congress Center building in Katowice, Silesia on Saturday, said 6,000 new beds would be created across the country in a month and that the ventilator capacity could be expanded by 3,500 more. of state reserves.
In Poland, with a population of almost 38 million, there have been 27,875 new infections in the last 24 hours, the highest since the outbreak, which is 789 more than the day before. Last day 349 people died, 300 of them due to the coexistence of Covid-19 and other diseases, and 49 specifically due to complications from the coronavirus. (MTI)
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