Daily report october 8, The Netherlands

 

New positives:   5831 (4996)

Deceased        :      13 (36)

At hospital: 1070 (1021) 

At IC        :    228  (210)  

At C-ward:    842

Most:

• Amsterdam (440)
• Rotterdam (422)
• Den Haag  (316)

The last 2 weeks hundreds of patients have been transported to other hospitals, mainly from West to East and North of the country.

But spreading the cases isn't going as well as it should.
To maintain regular care at a good level will be almost impossible.
Already some hospitals have cancelled surgeries and are seeing less referrals.
Those are hospitals in: Noord-Holland, Flevoland, Rotterdam-Rijnmond and Zuid-Holland Zuid.
Next will be UMC Utrecht.

It's expected that the increase of hospitalisations will continue for about a week. At the beginning of next week the number will be about 1250.
The IC patients will count up to 300.
But the problem is not the IC, as in the first wave, but will be at the Covid-wards, the socalled Covid-clinical beds.

Kuipers states it's a bit too early to assess if the last measures have been successful, but when the present developments continue new rules need to be announced.

Of all patients at the IC 29% are Covidpatients.

Of all Dutch people more than 7,5% is dealing with Covid-19

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