Czechs Tighten Coronavirus Measures in Northeastern Region After Infection Spike

People sit at a half-kilometre long table set up on the Charles Bridge in Prague to celebrate the end of the restrictions linked to the new coronavirus pandemic on June 30, 2020. Michal Cizek /AFP via Getty Images

PRAGUE—Czech authorities tightened coronavirus restrictions in the northeast of the country on Friday after a spike in cases, reinstating compulsory face coverings, limiting restaurant opening hours and ordering checks on cross-border commuters.

The country has suffered just 355 COVID-19 deaths, far fewer than in Western neighbours, but has seen a new spike in infections in the past three weeks, mostly concentrated in the industrial Moravia-Silesia region bordering Poland and Slovakia.