Aug 18, 2023 at 3:57 PM Update: 5 minutes ago
For the first time since the corona virus appeared in the Netherlands in February 2020, no one is in intensive care with corona anymore. In the past day, the last two corona patients have left the IC.
It is unclear whether the last two corona patients left the IC because they have recovered or because they have died. This is according to the National Coordination Center for Patient Distribution (LCPS).
LCPS emphasizes that the figures are determined once a day. So it is a snapshot. As a result, it is possible that someone has just been transferred from a nursing ward to an intensive care unit at the moment. The figure also says nothing about the future.
For example, the number of corona patients in the nursing wards has increased slightly in recent weeks. This is probably due to the emergence of a new sub-variant of the coronavirus.
At the beginning of this month, about forty corona patients were in a nursing ward, now there are more than seventy.
Level still very low
Sewer measurements show that the number of virus particles in the water is increasing. This may indicate that more people are infected with the virus. It is uncertain whether that is really the case, because the large-scale testing program has stopped.
The number of virus particles in the sewer is rising faster than the number of hospital admissions. This could mean that most people are sick at home and have little or no complaints for which they have to go to the hospital.
These are still small numbers, RIVM emphasized on Tuesday. “What we see in the last month is an increase, but the level is still very low,” said Susan van den Hof, head of the Center for Epidemiology and Surveillance of Infectious Diseases. “It’s now rising from very, very low to a little less very, very low.”
It is not clear what caused the slight increase. According to Van den Hof, the summer holidays may play a role. “Vacation always helps with virus spread.”
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