The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) reported 7,997 positive tests on Friday. That is a hundred more than the previous day (7,825), while it is more than 2,000 positive tests more than one week earlier (5,983). The number of corona-related deaths (17) decreased for the third day in a row.
This does not mean that these corona patients have all died or tested positive in the last 24 hours. The information is sometimes passed on to the institute with a delay.
This week, a slight decrease in the number of positive tests was only registered on Wednesday. On Monday and Tuesday, about five hundred positive tests were added compared to one day earlier and a new day record was also reported on Thursday.
The number of positive tests has been increasing rapidly within the Netherlands since mid-September. The negative milestone of 200,000 positive tests has now been passed. Although there is also a lot more testing, the RIVM suspects that the increase in the corona figures is due to less compliance with the basic rules and corona measures.
The number of positive tests is not only increasing in the Netherlands. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs therefore tightened up travel advice this week for France, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Poland, among others, in order to reduce the amount of travel.
This Thursday followed a call from Minister Ferd Grapperhaus (Justice and Security) and the Belgian Minister of the Interior Annelies Verlinden to respect the travel advice. “For the time being, do not cross the Dutch-Belgian border, unless it is really necessary,” said the ministers. The border will remain open.
More than two hundred hospitalizations have been reported
Figures from the National Coordination Center for Patient Distribution (LCPS) show that 219 corona patients were admitted to hospital in the past 24 hours. In addition, the number of IC admissions (+35) increased again faster than the day before (+30).
A total of 1,553 corona patients are now being treated in Dutch hospitals, 27 more than Thursday. The majority of these, 1,208 inhabitants, are treated in regular departments. Ernst Kuipers, chairman of the National Acute Care Network (LNAZ), calls the increases “in line with expectations”.
Although Germany and the Netherlands are again entering into a collaboration to have Dutch IC patients also treated by their eastern neighbors, this has not yet been used. Within the Netherlands, hospitals exchanged 36 corona patients. Kuipers expects the first IC patient to cross the border within 24 or 48 hours.
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