For the second day in a row, less than 400 new cases of corona infection have been registered in Denmark.
This is stated by the Statens Serum Institut on Monday in its daily update.
Since Sunday, 389 new cases of infection have been discovered. That is 49 more than in the previous update, when 340 new cases of infection were reported on Sunday.
According to Henrik Nielsen, professor and chief physician at Aalborg University Hospital, the health service can follow the epidemic at the moment.
However, the daily infection rates are still higher than one might hope, he says. He saw them like to get under 200 cases of infection per day.
– We have previously been clearly under 200 cases a day, so this sudden increase with a few days over 600 gave cause for concern.
– It is declining again, but it is not going down as fast as we could have dreamed of, but it has stabilized, he assesses.
Compared to a few weeks ago, the daily number of new cases of infection is generally lower at the moment. This may be because the number of coronavirus tests is also lower than a few weeks ago.
Since Sunday, there have been responses to 36,354 samples. This is something during the more than 50,000 tests that were answered daily a few weeks ago.
Overall, since the end of February, when the coronavirus is thought to have arrived in Denmark, the answer has been just under 4.4 million samples.
Slightly fewer than 2.6 million citizens have been tested for the virus. Some of them have had several tests performed.
On Monday, the number of hospitalized corona patients was calculated at 107. That is five more than in the latest update from the serum institute.
Out of the 107 inpatients, 19 are in an intensive care unit and 13 of them need help from a respirator.
– It’s a different epidemic than in the spring. It is another type of Danes who are infected now, who to a much greater extent can cope with the infection at home, it sounds from Henrik Nielsen.
Two deaths have been recorded in coronary heart disease over the past 24 hours.
Since mid-March, a total of 671 deaths have been recorded in people who had the virus in their bodies when they died.