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The Covida infection is now spreading very rapidly throughout the Stockholm region. Last week, approximately 42,000 people underwent ongoing covid-19 tests and of those, up to 20.3 percent were infected according to the Stockholm Region.
The week before, the proportion was infected 16.3 percent and the week before only 8.4 percent.
– The proportion of infected is increasing rapidly now. We break records every week both in the number of tests and in the proportion of infected and in the number, says Claes Ruth, functions manager of the Laboratory of the University of Karolinska.
In early November, the pressure turned so large that the region was temporarily forced to pause covid testing and now the number is limited and among other things priority is given to care and nursing staff. Despite running more testing than ever in the past week, the demand is higher than you can handle today.
– The need is endless and the pressure is enormous. It is true that not everyone who wants to prove themselves has had the opportunity, but at the end of the week we will increase the testing capacity, says Claes Ruth.
On Thursday, Unilabs will expand its production capacity, which means that the region will be able to carry out 9,000 more covid tests a week.
– We are increasing capacity significantly and aiming for a capacity of 50,000 per week. We don’t know if it’s enough until the end, but we do the best we can, says Claes Ruth.
At the same time, the number increases hospitalized in Stockholm hospitals largely. The 273 hospitalized patients on Friday doubled in just one week, which was more than expected, according to the region’s chief physician, Johan Bratt. Three of the hospitals are in personal mode to cope with the increase in covid patients.
The capacity of the Karolinska University Laboratory has been significantly expanded and the goal is now to have a capacity of 50,000 analyzes per week.
Photo: Jonas Lindkvist
Johan Styrud, president of the Stockholm Medical Association, testifies that the increased influx of patients continued to increase over the past weekend at Danderyd Hospital, which now has 50 hospitalized patients, five of whom are in intensive care, one 25 percent increase from last Friday.
– The second wave is here. There has been talk that there will probably be no second wave in Stockholm, but now we are there, says Johan Styrud.
In the region it has the number the infection rose sharply over the weekend, and on Monday, 315 patients were treated at the county hospital in emergency hospitals and geriatric care. The number of intensive care units increased from 27 to 34 only between Sunday and Monday.
Styrud says that attention is now adjusting, the same way it did last spring.
– Even so, it is not the same situation, because now we know how to do it and we know better how to care for and treat these patients. But you have to have great respect, he says.
Currently located four hospitals in the region on a personal basis: St. Göran’s Hospital, Danderyd Hospital, Södersjukhuset and Södertälje Hospital.
– We have a very worrying increase in the spread of infection and an increasing number of COVID-19 patients in the hospital, says Christophe Pedroletti, executive director of the Södertälje Hospital, in a press release.
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