The number of serious cases of covid-19 in the Czech Republic reached a new record on Monday for the entire epidemic, namely 1568 seriously ill. A total of 7717 were hospitalized with covid-19, which was the most since the beginning of last November. There were 12,150 more confirmed cases in the country on Monday, which is about 750 more than a week ago. Compared to the previous Monday, the share of positive tests also increased from 31.2 percent to 33.4 percent