Sixty new corona infections have been diagnosed in the province of Groningen in the past seven days. Half of them are thirty years old and younger. This is evident from figures from the GGD Groningen.
“Of the 60, 32 are between 15 and 30 years old”, the GGD says. “One third of these people had returned from abroad. A source is known for almost half of the new infections. There are a number of small clusters in the province. ” The GGD sees a clear increase in the number of infections compared to the previous weeks. Extensive source and contact research attempts to stop the spread of the virus as quickly as possible.
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Record number of people are tested
The number of people infected since the outbreak of the virus is now at 477. The actual number of infections is higher because not everyone with complaints could be tested before 1 June. The number of people who tested most recently reached a new record in the past seven days. In the period from 5 to 11 August, 3,054 people came to be tested. Never before have it been so many. Of the 3,054 people, 42 turned out to be positive. This amounts to 1.4 percent.
A total of 20,993 people have been tested since June 1.
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