Covid-19 hospital admissions expected to exceed first wave next month
Dutch NewsThe number of coronavirus patients in hospital could reach 6,000 by the start of December if current trends continue, the head of the country’s acute care service has warned. The rise in infections has slowed slightly in the last week from 27% to 22% a week – though around 1,500 cases were missing from last Saturday’s figures – but it takes one to two weeks for the trend in infections to be reflected in the hospital numbers. Wednesday’s admission figures showed another 313 patients with Covid-19 were being treated in hospital, two more than the number admitted the previous day. ‘Mixed picture’ Jaap van Dissel, head of the infectious disease control centre at the RIVM, told the briefing that it would become clear in the next few days if the ‘partial lockdown’ that began two weeks ago was working.