On day 500, the coronavirus is back from never being away | Inland

After the first press conference about the corona virus, a hand from Rutte caused confusion, because people were urged not to do that anymore.

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Increase

The virus’s current resurgence began just over a week ago. On Wednesday, RIVM reported 643 new cases, comparable to the weeks before, and that was the lowest level since September. On Thursday there were 826, on Friday 942 and on Saturday 1130. This week the number of positive tests has increased by an average of more than 40 percent per day, from 1522 on Monday to 6986 on Friday. In the last seven days, 22,139 positive tests have been reported, compared to 4,573 in the week before. The rise is almost vertical. If this continues, there will be more than 40,000 positive tests per day in the course of next week.

Dashboard

On the government’s corona dashboard, ten regions are at the lowest risk level, vigilant. The fifteen other regions are a step higher on worrisome. Nowhere is the situation serious or very serious. But that’s all thanks to the relative calm of a week ago. Partly because of this shelter, the Netherlands is also only orange and green on the European corona map, and not bright red. If the list were adopted now, the situation in Amsterdam-Amstelland would be very serious, the highest level of risk. In the last seven days, 3400 people have tested positive in and around the capital. Converted that comes down to almost 318 new cases for every 100,000 inhabitants. The week before, the virus was diagnosed in 41 in every 100,000 people, so in a week the number of new cases has increased almost eight times.

Another hot spot is Groningen. The northern province, which includes the large student city of Groningen, counted more than 250 cases for every 100,000 inhabitants last week. That is an increase of 994 percent compared to the previous week. As a result, Groningen is also heading for the stamp very seriously. Regions such as Twente, Gelderland-South, Utrecht, Zaanstreek-Waterland, Kennemerland, Gooi en Vechtstreek, Hollands Midden, Haaglanden, Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Central and West Brabant and Brabant-Zuidoost meet the conditions for serious. Each region is again well above the so-called signal value, the level at which government alarm bells start ringing. Hence the measures announced by the cabinet on Friday to turn the tide.

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