Hospitals under strain again after coronavirus patients moved from Zwolle
Dutch NewsThree coronavirus patients were transferred from a hospital in Zwolle to Rotterdam at the weekend amid warnings that the health service will struggle to cope with a winter wave. The Isala hospital said it had had to cancel 20 operations this week that had already been postponed once when regular care was scaled back to make room for Covid-19 patients. People who are unvaccinated are more seriously ill, have to go to hospital sooner and spend more time there.’ Across the country the number of patients has gone up from 422 to 546 in the last two weeks, a 29% increase, while positive tests have increased by more than 50% in the past week. Jaap van Dissel, the public health agency RIVM’s head of infectious disease control, said there was likely to be a winter peak in hospital and intensive care admissions, but the Outbreak Management Team was not advocating new restrictions at this stage.