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REGION – Follow the most important news about the coronavirus in our overview of Tuesday 5 October.
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UNICEF: mental health of young people is under pressure
UNICEF is deeply concerned about the mental health of young people. According to the United Nations aid agency, 1 in 7 young people between the ages of 10 and 18 worldwide has a diagnosed mental illness. According to UNICEF, the mental health of an entire generation is under pressure.
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The children’s rights organization points to the impact of the corona pandemic on the mental health of young people, which, according to UNICEF, is the tip of the iceberg. Mental health problems were widespread among young people before the pandemic, researchers say in Tuesday’s The State of the World’s Children 2021: On My Mind. It is UNICEF’s most comprehensive study of the mental health of children and young people to date.
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According to the researchers, suicide is the number five cause of death among 15 to 19-year-olds worldwide and even the number 2 cause of death in Western Europe. The Netherlands.
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Weekly figures RIVM: number of corona cases no longer falling
The rapid decline in the number of corona cases in recent weeks is over, at least for now. Almost as many positive tests have been registered in the past seven days as in the week before. The number of reported deaths from the coronavirus also remains about the same. The number of hospital admissions is likely to fall.
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The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) reports every Tuesday how many positive tests there have been in the previous seven days. In the six days after the last update, the institute received 10,118 reports, an average of 1686 per day. This means that the weekly figure will probably be 11,500 to 12,000 positive tests. Last week, RIVM reported 11,760 confirmed infections in a week.
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The number of hospital admissions is still falling. The corona complaints of just under 200 people were probably so bad that they ended up in a nursing ward or intensive care unit last week. The week before, there were more than 200 new admissions, more than 300 the week before and almost 400 the week before. The number of reported deaths is likely to remain about the same, between 30 and 35.
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The institute also calculates the new reproduction number on Tuesday, which indicates how quickly the virus is spreading. The figure stood at 0.93 at the end of last week. It has been hovering around 0.9 for a few weeks now.
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‘Pfizer still 90 percent effective against hospitalization after six months’
After six months, Pfizer’s vaccine is still 90 percent effective against hospitalization due to corona. However, the chance of a corona infection increases considerably, because six months after the second injection, the protection is only 47 percent. This is evident from studies published in the scientific journal The Lancet.
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The research shows the importance of booster shots. After two months, the Pfizer vaccine is 88 percent effective, but then it decreases. Protection against hospitalization remains high, according to the scientists, and that also applies to the infectious delta variant.
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