PRAGUE – The Czech Republic has reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases, health authorities said Wednesday.
The battle against the pandemic is far from over in the hard-hit European Union country, which hopes to learn from previous mistakes that repeatedly allowed soaring infections to almost bring down the struggling health system.
The Czech Republic is by far the smallest of the 20 countries to surpass the milestone, with the U.S. leading the global table with more than 26 million confirmed cases. “I’d like to say our approach has not been successful,” said Jan Trnka, a biochemist from Prague’s Charles University.