In addition to the flaring up of corona, virologists fear a severe flu wave this winter. That is why the Amsterdam GGD and the metropolitan UMC hospital have decided to also test people who are tested for the coronavirus in a test street for flu, the program reports. One today.
The aim is to monitor the flu. If the infections with the flu virus rise too fast and hospitals are overloaded, professor of virology and OMT member Menno de Jong told EenVandaag, then measures that are comparable to the corona measures can follow.
“That is important in particular for the vulnerable groups, who are at risk of ending up in hospital with a serious flu.” Virologists have chosen Amsterdam to keep their finger on the pulse, because the capital is often ahead of the rest of the Netherlands in terms of infections.
36 percent more positive tests
Indeed, Amsterdam again had the largest number of people with a positive corona test between Saturday and Sunday morning, according to figures from the RIVM. 113 capital city residents were told they were infected. Amsterdam was followed this weekend by The Hague (90), Rotterdam (60) and Utrecht (49).
Until Sunday morning, 2288 new positive tests were reported to the RIVM from all over the country. Although that number is lower than the number of reports in the 24 hours before Saturday morning, the average number of positive corona tests is increasing. In the past week, an average of 2249 positive tests per day were recorded. That is 36 percent more than in the seven days before.
No deceased covid patients were reported to RIVM this weekend. A side note should be added: on Saturdays and Sundays, generally fewer deaths are reported to RIVM than on weekdays. Last week there were an average of three deaths a day, compared to five deaths a day a week earlier.
More patients in hospital
In hospitals, the average number of new admissions of corona patients rose last week, the National Coordination Center for Patients Distribution (LCPS) reported this weekend. On Sunday, the intensive care units treated 130 people with the virus, and there were 349 patients with corona in the nursing wards. The LCPS expects the occupancy rate to remain ‘more or less stable’ next week.
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