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1,204 new cases of coronavirus were diagnosed in the last day - a new record high, the Health Board said on Friday. There were eight deaths.

The number of new coronavirus cases was more than 20 percent higher last week than in the preceding week making Estonia's infection rate the second highest in Europe, newspaper Postimees reported on Wednesday. As of Thursday morning, Estonia's 14-day average is 850.81 per 100,000 people. The World Health Organization's monitor show's the Czech Republic has the highest rate at 1,211. Üllar Lanno, director general of the Health Board, said that the agency thinks a nationwide rate below 500 would be satisfactory but, currently, the figure is above 500 in 11 Estonian counties. See the graph belo...

And a thoughtful face, so honest; so quiet, pained, and speechless. Those words were by Juhan Liiv, the most genuine and deeply-rooted embodiment of Estonian pain poetry. May the lines be in remembrance of the years the coronavirus took away from the people of Estonia; of years left unlived. They would have been brimming with wisdom – precious sharing, precious gathering, precious time spent together. The coronavirus is robbing the Estonian people of a sizeable body of our elders' wisdom. And not only that part which is permanent. It has also taken away the hours we now cannot spend sitti...

1,069 new cases of coronavirus were diagnosed during the last day, the Health Board (Terviseamet) said on Wednesday. The 14-day infection rate is now 814.99 per 100,000 inhabitants.

Thirteen people died after being diagnosed with coronavirus and 962 new cases were reported during the last day, the Health Board (Terviseamet) said on Tuesday. The 14-day average is now 794.67 per 100,000 inhabitants.