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The National Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM) reports 129 new hospital admissions in the daily update on Saturday. That’s less than a week earlier, when 189 new admissions were reported to RIVM. Not all crown patients were admitted to hospital on the same day.
The RIVM reports in the update that another 142 people have died from the consequences of the coronavirus. This increases the death toll to 3,601. Those are slightly newer deaths than exactly a week ago (132).
Not all of these people died on the same day. Some patients are not reported to RIVM until days later. Therefore, the data from previous days will be completed later.
Among the deceased is someone between the ages of fifteen and nineteen. This patient had underlying suffering.
There are 1,140 recently confirmed infections with the COVID-19 virus at the institute. In total, 31,589 people in the Netherlands have now tested positive. A total of 9,594 patients have been or have been hospitalized.
In reality, more people have become infected with the virus and died from its effects than has been measured. Because not everyone is tested for the coronavirus, not all cases of infection and death are included in official statistics.
Testing capacity has been expanded in recent weeks. The people evaluated were mainly health workers, hospital patients, nursing home or nursing home residents, and other vulnerable people.
RIVM: continues to decline
“The figures for the past few days fit the picture that the measures generally appear to work,” RIVM reported Friday. “The number of new reports per day of hospitalized patients continues to decrease. The number of patients who die is also decreasing, but less rapidly than hospital admissions.”
This is probably because the time between infection and death is longer than the time between infection and hospitalization.
The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) announced Friday that roughly 2,000 more people died last week than on average in the first ten weeks of this year. This indicates that more people have died from the coronavirus than reported.
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