PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech Republic reported a record high 16,939 daily cases of COVID-19 for the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
The central European country of 10.7 million people has been one of the hardest hit in the region, with its total number of detected cases reaching 718,661, and 11,580 deaths.
(Reporting by Jan Lopatka; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
