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R below 1 again, 30 percent fewer positive tests last week | NOW

The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) registered 43,621 positive corona tests in the past week. That is a decrease of 32 percent compared to the previous week, when the RIVM reported 64,087 positive tests. In addition, it is the second week in a row that the number of new positive tests has decreased. In addition, the reproduction number (R) has fallen “with certainty” below 1 for the first time since mid-June.

RIVM looks at the reproduction number of two weeks ago for reliability. The R was then at 0.91. That means that a hundred people with the corona virus together infect 91 others. Last week, the RIVM reported an R of 1.11.

In the past week, the institute registered fewer positive test results every day than the day before. On Tuesday it was 4,695 new positive tests. As far as is known, there were no disruptions that could have caused the numbers to be lower.

The number of hospital admissions also decreased. 1,520 corona patients were admitted to a nursing ward and 275 to an intensive care ward in the past week. In the week before, this involved 1,966 and 321 admissions respectively.

The number of deaths is still rising. In the past seven days, 565 deaths were reported, in the previous week it was 435 deceased corona patients.

Measures work, the government continues to insist on compliance with rules

The measures taken in October seem to have resulted in a decrease in the number of new cases. Nevertheless, RIVM continues to emphasize the importance of compliance with the rules.

So did Minister Ferd Grapperhaus (Security and Justice). “We still have around five thousand infections a day and we are not there yet,” he said on Monday evening after the consultation with the 25 mayors in the Security consultation.

Research of current affairs program One today showed on Tuesday that commercial test providers, healthcare facilities and companies conduct about 170,000 corona tests per week. It is not known whether it has been less busy at the GGD test streets as a result.

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