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The sharp rise in corona infection in Skåne means that recommendations for all Skåne residents are sharpened. The infection rate now exceeds 100 on average over seven days. It is in everyday life that everyone must step up, urged infection control doctor Eva Melander.
Infection control doctor Eva Melander urges the people of Skåne to take a step forward: not going to parties, after work or having large meetings at the workplace.
– Don’t go to parties or after work! If the store or mall is full, wait to enter! And my call to workplaces is: Be creative and flexible so you don’t spread the word. More people than usual need to stay home: Replace physical meetings with digital ones, he said at Wednesday’s press conference.
Few of those infected with corona are still so ill that they need hospitalization. Right now, three people with covid are on IVA and 20 are in the Skåne pavilion.
– The burden we had on healthcare last spring, we don’t want to go back there! Eva Melander said.
Skåne region He is not familiar with the introduction of local restrictions, if it turns out that more people become seriously ill, said regional director Alf Jönsson.
-If necessary, I do not hesitate to make more decisions so that health care is not reduced, so that we cannot see all the patients who have had to give up care during the spring, he said, but emphasized that Skåne has not yet has the same. pressure on healthcare as in Uppsala.
315 new cases of infection were reported on Tuesday, which is skyrocketing above all previous daily quotes, even as a build-up after the weekends. The average number of infections has risen, now exceeding 100 per day for seven days, compared to 55 a week ago.
The sharp point According to Eva Melander, this may be related to the fact that the Skåne Region now has rules for home quarantine, meaning that people living with an infected person must get tested and stay home. And that the cold season is underway.
The number of virus tests also broke records last week, surpassing 20,000. But what worries the infection control doctor is that the proportion of those tested who have been confirmed infected has risen.
– Among the self-evaluations, 5 percent are positive. Of the tests performed on patients, 3.5 percent are positive, which is a sign of a further spread of the infection, he said.
– The infection has increased more in the group of 19 to 49 years, but also in the group of 50 to 69 years.
Most have so far mild symptoms. And while a small concentration of cases had previously been seen in Malmö and Helsingborg, the increase is now found throughout western Scania. Also in Lund and also in Kristianstad.
– It is increasing everywhere in Skåne, except in the southeast. It is a widespread spread of the infection, warns Eva Melander.
– Reports come from workplaces, schools, funerals, parties, after work. Sports clubs connect with athletes both young and old.
One or more infected people have been reported in ten nursing homes.
Regional director Alf Jönsson also pushed hard for personal responsibility. To keep working digitally, don’t take public transportation if you don’t have to, take stairs instead of an elevator.
– Everyone should ask themselves the question: what can I do?
