Slightly fewer positive tests, also much less pressure in the test lanes

It is unclear to what extent the malfunction at the GGD last weekend is to blame for that decline. Then people were temporarily unable to make an appointment online. The RIVM and OMT also point to a possible connection with the May holiday. The number of positive tests rose proportionally from 10.6 to 11.7 percent. That is the highest percentage in three months.

The influx into hospitals decreased slightly over the past week, but remained virtually the same in intensive care. There are now 2613 people with corona in the hospital, of which 818 on the ic. On average, 251 covid patients per day entered the nursing ward of a hospital every day during the past week. That is just under 5 percent less than last week. The number of IC admissions per day is slightly higher than a week ago, at 47.

The RIVM has noticed that in recent weeks more younger people, especially between the ages of 40 and 60, are being admitted with the corona virus. According to the institute, this has to do with the advance of the British variant. “The middle group has just not been vaccinated, but has a higher chance of being hospitalized,” says Susan van den Hof, head of the Center for Epidemiology and Surveillance of Infectious Diseases at RIVM. US. “That is now happening in numbers that we have not seen in the whole of last year.”

Relaxations

This means that the condition for relaxation, as formulated earlier by the OMT, has not yet been met. It OMT finds that the cabinet should only proceed if a decrease of ‘at least 20 percent’ has been achieved on the average number of new hospital and IC admissions, as it turned out Tuesday morning.

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