Coronavirus infections and hospital cases at lowest level since October
Dutch NewsThe number of patients taken to hospital with coronavirus in the last week fell to its lowest level since the start of October, the RIVM’s latest weekly bulletin shows. The number of positive coronavirus tests fell by 28.1% to 25,255, while the positive test rate dropped from 12.2% of all tests to 10.4% in the past week, the public health agency said. The reproductive number R was calculated at 0.82 on May 10, down from 0.89 the week before, indicating that every 100 infected people pass the virus on to another 82. ‘What we want is for the number of coronavirus patients in hospitals to get down to a very low level.’ The virus is declining faster in the northern provinces than in the south, but all 25 health board regions are now below the threshold of 250 infections per 100,000 people per week that is classed as ‘very severe’ on the government’s risk scale.