On Tuesday, August 25, the RIVM last reported a fall in the weekly total. We then went from 3,996 to 3,572 new cases in a week.
This week’s decrease equates to a 5 percent reduction. “Especially in the last days we saw a lower number of reports. That seems to be an effect of the measures that came into effect at the end of September and mid-October,” the institute said in an explanation.
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Autumn break
The actual state of affairs is difficult to estimate at the moment. Due to a technical malfunction in the system where regional health services pass on information to RIVM, delays must be taken into account.
There may already have been a larger decrease or the lower figures may be a result of the autumn holiday. As a result, there were fewer travel movements in the Netherlands.
Not loud enough
Nevertheless, according to the RIVM, the decline is not yet fast enough. The so-called reproduction number, the number that indicates how quickly the coronavirus is spreading among the population, fell slightly to 1.1 last week.
The government wants the reproduction number to fall below 1. Then the outbreak slowly fades. “The number of infectious persons remains high,” the institute said. The RIVM also points out that in the age groups over 60 years, no decrease in the number of positively tested people can be seen.
Deaths sustained
It was also announced that the number of deaths has continued to increase. In the past week, 435 deaths from the coronavirus have been reported. Last week, the institute reported 329 corona deaths and 185 the week before.
The RIVM also announced that 1966 people had been admitted to a hospital ward because of the corona virus, and that 321 people had been admitted to an intensive care unit. A week earlier, there were 1739 and 333 respectively.
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