In the six days after the last update, 18,774 positive tests were registered, an average of 3129 per day. That could mean the weekly figure could come in somewhere between 21,000 and 22,000 Tuesday, which would be another drop of about 40 percent.
Hospital and deaths
In the weekly update, RIVM also reports how many corona patients have been admitted to hospitals in the past week. That number may be around 700, up from 538 a week earlier. The number of new admissions has been a bit more stable in the last few days.
The number of deaths reported in a week is likely to rise to about 30. Last week, RIVM reported 21 deaths and 14 the week before.
Reproduction number
RIVM will also calculate the new reproduction number on Tuesday, which indicates how quickly the virus is spreading. That figure stood at 3 a few weeks ago, the highest level ever. Last Friday it had fallen to 0.7 and that is the lowest level in more than a year. At such a low number, the outbreak may slowly die down. The figure is always about the situation two weeks earlier, because more recent figures are not yet reliable enough.
RIVM also reports on Tuesday how many people were vaccinated against the corona virus last week. There are probably 850,000 to 900,000, which would be the lowest number since early May. More than 84 percent of adults have had at least a first shot. This makes the Netherlands one of the best in Europe.
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