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Number of corona infections in Brabant almost doubled in a week

In Brabant, 1,316 new infections were added in a week. The RIVM announced this on Tuesday afternoon. That is twice as many as the week before. Two weeks ago, there were 743 new patients across the province.

The number of infections is increasing almost everywhere in the province, with the outliers being Eindhoven, Bergeijk, Eersel and Goirle.

Only in South and North Holland were more people infected with the corona virus last week. Last week, six people ended up in Brabant hospitals.

The signal value of the three Brabant safety regions is the highest in at least five weeks on Tuesday. The signal value is a kind of ‘alarm bell’ set by the Ministry of VWS. Those alarm bells can go off when many people get sick at the same time, are hospitalized or tested positive. Despite the sharp increase, the risk level in Brabant has not yet increased.

Rural situation

Nationwide, more than 13,400 corona patients have been added in a week. Of these, 152 people had to be hospitalized. In the week from 16 to 22 September, 33 people died from the effects of the corona virus.

The number of corona infections is not only increasing, the spread of the virus is also going faster and faster. Each week the increase is greater than the week before. The number of infections already started to increase in July. From July 1-7, 432 positive tests were registered.

A month later, from 5 to 11 August, the health services reported 4,036 infections. This was followed by a period of relative calm. At the end of August, two weeks had occurred with just over 3,500 cases.

The last of those two weeks was the start of the current wave. From August 26 to September 1, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment received 3,597 contamination reports. A week later there were 5,427, an increase of 50.9 percent.

Another week later, the number of reports came to 8,265, an increase of 52.3 percent. And in the past week, RIVM received 13,471 registrations, 63 percent more than in the previous week.

If the number of reports continues to grow at this rate, the counter will be around 22,000 infected people next Tuesday.

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