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On Easter night, 306 corona-infected patients were admitted to hospitals in Norway, an increase of 17 patients from the previous day. So the number is not that far behind the 325 patients who were admitted on April 1 of last year, the highest number admitted so far since the pandemic began.
But at the same time, national infection rates are stabilizing. In the last 24 hours, 692 new corona infections have been registered in the country. That’s 80 less than last week’s average.
Chief Physician Preben Aavitsland at FHI emphasizes that this will have a delayed effect on the number of hospitalized patients.
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– The number of new admissions decreases a couple of weeks after the number of new infected decreases. Therefore, it is appropriate that we now see a decrease in the number of admissions, he tells NTB.
And the top one emphasizes that the trend may already be visible.
– In week eleven we came to the top with 224 new admissions, in week twelve it was 197. This week we are currently at 104 and we finish probably at around 150, he says.
Health Director Bjørn Guldvog also believes that fewer coronary patients may be seen in the future.
– Those admitted to the hospital have often been infected between one and three weeks before. So we can expect hospitalization numbers to drop somewhat in the next two weeks if infection rates continue to decline, Guldvog said.
Lower infection rates
Among the places that have reported less infection recently, we find Oslo. On Easter night, 192 new infections were recorded, 39 below last week’s average.
In Stavanger, Tuesday saw the highest number of infections since January 12, with 27 infected. After that, the infection has gone down a bit in the city. It has also done so in Haugesund, which had an infection peak on March 18.
Trøndelag has had very favorable infection rates for several weeks. On Wednesday, March 31, only three new infections were reported in Trondheim out of nearly 1,000 tests completed. The infection has also decreased in Bodø.
Longer hospital stays
Aavitsland also points to the possibility that Easter may have something to do with people staying longer in the hospital, and that this may contribute to an extra high number of hospitalized patients.
– It is not so easy to discharge patients at Easter when there is a holiday break in some of the municipal services that will be in charge of monitoring discharged patients, says the superior of FHI.
At the same time, the decrease in the number of cases of infection may be related to less testing activity at Easter. But in Bergen, infection rates are increasing, despite fewer tests being done over the Easter holidays.
(© NTB)
