PRAGUE – It's 11 weeks since thousands of citizens of the Czech capital, Prague, sat together at a 500-meter-long table on the medieval Charles Bridge to say goodbye to the coronavirus pandemic and celebrate a return to almost-normal life.The Central European country was one of the quickest to get the first wave of the virus under control, and began removing restrictions as early as April.
The second wave, though, has hit hard.The number of new confirmed cases has been setting records almost on a daily basis. The Health Ministry announced on Thursday that a total of 2,139 positive cases were recorded in the previous 24 hours — more than in the entire month of May and 450 more than the previous record, set the day before.