More than half of the corona patients who are admitted to hospital are still affected by the infection six months after admission, according to research by the GGD Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC. Three months after admission, four in five patients admitted appear to still have complaints, a spokesperson for the GGD confirms after reporting by … Read more
Venlo / Hout-Blerick / Boekend / Steyl / Lomm / Tegelen / Fields / Belfeld / Blerick / Arcen / Heerlen / Hoensbroek – Against the national picture of cautious stabilization, the number of corona infections in Limburg rose sharply last week. The GGDs had 3827 reports: almost 19 percent more than a week earlier. … Read more
Limburg was the province with relatively the most corona infections last week. This is mainly due to the large number of infections in North and Central Limburg. – Compared to the population, the corona virus spreads the fastest in our province with 332.90 infections per 100,000 inhabitants. This is evident from figures from the GGDs … Read more
In anticipation of the national vaccination program, care organization Meander has already been able to vaccinate 200 of its 1,200 home care workers themselves. – This was possible by being economical with the vaccines that were available to the residents. Home care workers were initially going to be vaccinated in January, but were put on … Read more
A woman from Lansingerland was summoned by letter to be tested for corona, but was inadvertently injected with the Pfizer vaccine. Staff at the GGD location at Rotterdam The Hague Airport did not check the woman’s data properly. As a result, she ended up in the injection line and not the test line. – It … Read more
The Limburg GGDs are fully engaged in preparations for the large-scale corona vaccination in the province. – The spokespersons of GGD Limburg-Noord and GGD Zuid Limburg confirm this on Monday. More clarity quicklyIt is not yet clear what this large-scale vaccination program will look like. “I expect to get more clarity soon, perhaps already at … Read more
The RIVM reports 6,093 positive corona tests on Saturday. That is 19 percent more than this week’s average (5,104). We compare the number of positive tests with the average of last week (Monday to Friday), because the GGDs had to deal with an IT outage on Wednesday, affecting reported numbers of several days. It is … Read more
– Photo: CC0 via PickPik – More people in the Netherlands became ill last year from food infections and poisoning. Fewer outbreaks of diseases have been registered, health institute RIVM reports. In total, there were 735 outbreaks of infectious diseases in the past year, with 3,058 people becoming ill. In 2018, that number was still … Read more
The province, both Limburg GGDs and Maastricht UMC + will start researching antibodies and the spread of the corona virus in Limburg from Friday. They are looking for 10,000 volunteers for this. – The aim is to find out which factors contributed to the spread of corona in the province. First waveWith the research, the … Read more
After weeks in which South Limburg in particular lagged significantly behind a nationally strong increase in the number of new corona infections, infection rates are now rising rapidly throughout the province. Both GGDs counted 1,441 positive tests from 5 October to Sunday. That is more than double compared to a week earlier (701). – .