That is about a thousand fewer than Friday, when 68,320 new infections were identified after correction. In the past seven days, RIVM registered 335,120 positive test results. That equates to an average of 47,874 new cases per day.
In the past 24 hours, most new infections were detected in Amsterdam, namely 2151 cases. In Groningen there were 1576 new cases. In Eindhoven 1745 cases were recorded. There were 1539 new cases in Den Bosch and 1316 in Maastricht.
Carnival was celebrated in these last three cities. There are also more positive tests in other places where many people celebrated carnival, such as Land van Cuijk (813), Oss (707) and Roosendaal (633).
RIVM reports 9 new deaths on Saturday. This does not mean that these people have actually died in the past 24 hours, because it sometimes takes a while before a death from Covid-19 is reported to RIVM.
On Friday, the institute registered 10 people who died as a result of a corona infection.
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