The decline in the number of corona infections, hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19 is still continuing. This is apparent from the weekly figures of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).
The infection rate fell slightly more slowly in the past week than in the weeks before. In total, 4208 people tested positive. That is 26 percent less than a week earlier.
At that time, the decrease in the number of positive tests was still 36 percent, compared to 38 percent the week before. The number of new cases amounts to 25 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Fewer positive tests
The latest figures show that only 3.2 percent of the corona tests that people had at the GGD turned out positive. That was 4.3 percent a week earlier.
The number of hospital admissions halved, to 82 in a whole week. Of these patients, 17 were so sick after a corona infection that they ended up in intensive care.
Reproduction number slightly decreased
According to RIVM calculations, the reproduction number is 0.76. That is slightly lower than Friday, when it stood at 0.79. The figure makes it even more clear that the pandemic is extinguishing.
Every 100 people who contract the virus infect an average of 76 others. Incidentally, RIVM looks back two weeks in time to determine the reproduction number.
An estimated 17,000 people are contagious
Currently, more than 17,000 people who carry the virus are contagious to others, RIVM estimates. The bandwidth of that estimate is quite large: according to the institute, there are in any case between 10,338 and 24,811.
RIVM recorded 15 corona-related deaths last week, compared to 17 in the week before.
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By: Bert van Doorn
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