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Fewer new hospitalizations and deaths reported

On Saturday, 120 new coronavirus deaths were reported. That’s less than a week ago when 142 new deaths were reported.

The number of new hospital admissions has also decreased. Last Saturday 129 new hospital admissions were reported, on Saturday there were one hundred.

The figures still follow the RIVM according to the picture that the corona measures work. Both the number of new reports of hospitalized patients and the number of reported deceased patients are still declining.

The figures from the daily update of the RIVM do not correspond to the actual number of hospital admissions and deaths on that day. There is a delay between the actual moment of death and the moment when the notification of death comes to RIVM. This also applies to the number of hospital admissions.

The table below shows the actual number of deaths and hospital admissions by date. This number may increase, as the data from past days is not yet complete.

Incidentally, the actual number of deaths is greater than RIVM reports, because not everyone who dies from COVID-19 has also been tested.

Slight decrease in number of Dutch corona patients on ICs

The decline in the number of Dutch corona patients in intensive care (IC) continued on Saturday. Currently, 922 corona patients are on Dutch ICs and 37 Dutch corona patients are on German ICs.

Although this is a slight decrease of four people compared to Friday, according to chairman Ernst Kuipers of the National Network Acute Care (LNAZ), it fits within the normal fluctuations. “We have no reason to believe that the gradual decline will come to a complete halt.”

The small difference may be partly explained by the fact that some of the layoffs of the IC during the weekend take place a little later in the day than during the week.

The number of IC patients has been falling daily since April 12, as the graph below clearly shows.

East Brabant and Limburg remain epicenter virus

The map below shows the total number of hospital admissions per 100,000 inhabitants per municipality. This clearly shows that East Brabant and North Limburg are still the epicenter of the virus outbreak in the Netherlands.

It is striking that Oudewater (Utrecht) and Heerde (Gelderland) have also been hit by the virus.

The data for each municipality appears when you click on a municipality in the map or enter it in the search bar.

Most deaths between the ages of 85 and 89

Of all reported deaths Saturday, 21.6 percent were between 85 and 89 years old. On average, half of the number of corona patients who die is aged 81 or older.

The youngest patient to die was eighteen or nineteen years old. According to the RIVM, this person had underlying health problems.

If we look at the figures so far (blue is hospital admissions, red deaths), we see that this person is the youngest person to date who died of the coronavirus in the Netherlands.

More men died of viruses, women test positive more often

About six in ten corona patients who died were male. The male-female ratio is the same for hospital admissions. However, men do not get infected more often than women. Earlier in this article we explained how it is.

About 80 percent of all infected care workers are women and half are under 45 years of age. Most likely, this is because women are overrepresented in healthcare professions.

Since April 6, healthcare personnel can be tested more often, because the cabinet has expanded the testing capacity. As a result, women now test positive for the coronavirus much more often than men, while this ratio was previously about fifty-fifty. Recently, some 40,000 people have been tested for the virus every week.