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On Tuesday, 900 patients were admitted with the virus in Danish hospitals. Of these, 128 are in the intensive care unit and 73 of them are on respirators, BT reports
In the Capital Region, the number of hospitalized corona patients has increased by nearly a third since Christmas Eve, reports the Berlingske newspaper. In the last 24 hours alone, 69 people have been hospitalized with covid-19 in the region.
On Tuesday, it was announced that the capital region decided to postpone all planned treatments until the end of January. It reports from the hospital itself in a press release, according to DR.
– The capital is under siege, Joachim Hoffmann-Petersen, chief doctor of the intensive care unit at Odense University Hospital, tells Berlingske.
– Very serious
– Not under control
Compare the capital with the rest of the country, which believes that it is in a more comfortable place in terms of the contagion situation.
However, it is clear that the situation has not gone in the right direction, despite national restrictions.
– We have had a pretty strong close for 14 days. There have been big fluctuations in the test numbers, but one should be very optimistic to think that this looks good. The restrictions do not appear to have significantly affected the spread of the infection, he tells the newspaper.
Also a professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University and former chief physician at Aarhus University Hospital, Eskild Petersen tells the newspaper that what is especially worrying is the high number of hospital admissions.
– The epidemic is not under control. It is particularly worrying that the number of hospitalized is increasing. We know from this spring that when we have a low test number, the number of admissions is the most accurate indicator of the development of the crown situation.
– Extremely serious
Now the R number in Denmark is estimated to have risen to 1.2, from 0.9. Health Minister Magnus Heunicke himself wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, but at the same time emphasized that there is uncertainty about this number as there have been large variations in the number of tests performed at Christmas.
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– We have too high an infection pressure, and combined with a high percentage of positive samples, increased hospitalization rates and more deaths, the situation is extremely serious, writes the Minister of Health.
While the number of positive samples will be 3.35 percent nationally, the number now exceeds 5 percent in the capital region, Berlingske writes.
In Denmark, 2,621 people have been diagnosed with the virus in the past 24 hours, figures from the Statens Serum Institut show Tuesday.
22 people have died from the virus in the past 24 hours, BT reports. In all, 1,226 have died from the virus in Denmark.
The health authorities have called a press conference on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. Several Danish media experience that the government will extend all restrictions until January 17.
