Number of corona patients in hospitals highest since the end of May
There will be fifty more corona patients in hospital on Saturday than the day before. In total, there are 1,399 corona patients in Dutch hospitals, which is the highest number since May 28, when 1,440 corona patients were admitted. This is evident from figures from the National Coordination Center for Patients Spreading (LCPS). There are two more corona patients on the ICs on Saturday than on Friday. A total of 288 people with Covid-19 are now in ICUs.
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The editors of NRC keep up to date with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic here. This is the blog from the weekend of November 6 and 7. On Friday, figures from Statistics Netherlands showed that more than 1,250 more people died in October than expected based on death rates in the years before the corona pandemic. Nearly 11,000 positive corona tests were reported on Friday. There were 1,350 patients with the corona virus in Dutch hospitals, a slight increase compared to the day before.
The American pharmaceutical company Pfizer said it has developed a “very effective” corona pill. This has yet to be approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). In response, outgoing minister Hugo de Jonge did not want to fly the flag yet. According to him, the pressure in the hospitals is not suddenly solved by the drug. “The pill will only help a little.”
Furthermore, after the Council of Ministers, De Jonge emphasized that he wants the situation in the emergency room of hospitals to improve. Doctors fear congestion, to prevent this, De Jonge wants patients to be better spread out between hospitals. The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport has tightened up the guidelines for testing.
Read the blog here back from Friday 5 November
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