The number of positive corona tests has fallen sharply in the past week compared to the week before. There were 116,477, a decrease of more than 21 percent. The number of hospital admissions is also decreasing, but RIVM is taking into account that the omikron variant could undo this favorable trend.
“Because the greater contagiousness of this variant will lead to more infections in the coming weeks, the number of hospital admissions may increase again,” the RIVM writes. are.”
It was a lot less busy on the test streets last week. This may be related to the increased use of self-tests. Since December 3, people with mild complaints may first do a self-test at home. If it is positive, they still have to go to the GGD for an official PCR test. This new policy leads to less congestion at the test streets, says Susan van den Hof, head of epidemiology at RIVM. Between 6 and 12 December, 453,680 people went to the GGD for a test, the week before that was 621,850 people. The percentage of positive tests increased to 23.4%.
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This makes it more difficult to interpret the new infection figures, says Van den Hof. However, we do think that the lower number of infections is really the result of the measures that came into effect on November 28. We trust that a large part of the people who have a positive self-test will also go to the GGD to have it confirmed. In addition, we also see a downward trend in the sewer data and in our infection radar.”
The number of new admissions in hospitals has also fallen slightly since about ten days. According to the National Coordination Center for Patient Distribution (LCPS), there are now an average of 39 per day in ICUs. That was almost 50 two weeks ago. The number of new patients in the ‘normal’ wards is now 272 per day, compared to more than 300 per day at the beginning of November.
Children
More than ever, children are the motor behind this corona wave. No less than 11.9 percent of the infections were found last week in children between 5 and 9 years old, and another 10.4 percent in children between 10 and 14. Regionally, Zeeland and South Limburg stand out in terms of number of infections. Throughout the country, the number of infections is lower than a week ago.
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