Day update Corona & weekly overview

Weekly overview: Total past 7 days 41394 COVID-19 infections and 616 new hospital admissions and 535 deaths.

Last week, the number of new reports of COVID-19 decreased compared to the week before. The number of reports has decreased in all regions. The number of hospital admissions is also falling. The decrease is in line with the calculations made by RIVM National Institute for Health and Environment prior to the measurements has made.

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The reproduction number R is for the first time since mid-June with certainty below 1. This seems to be an effect of the measures that came into effect at the end of September and mid-October. The number of infectious persons remains high, with more than 145,000 (lower limit 105,000 – upper limit 187,000) persons this week.

In the past week, 43,621 new reports of COVID-19 * were received, which is 20,466 (-32%) less than the week before. This decrease can also be seen for the first time in all age groups (Figure 1).

Although there is a visible decline, the number of reports and admissions is still high. The new number of reports in the past week (November 4 to 10) is comparable with the weekly figures from week 41, from 7 to 13 October, with 43,903 COVID-19 reports. Then national measures were announced by the cabinet. In that same week 41, there were 1,144 new hospital admissions and 192 new IC intensive care admissions, compared to 1,520 new hospital admissions and 275 new IC admissions in the past week.

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