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Wastewater tracking more important for monitoring development of coronavirus

Wastewater tracking will become more important in monitoring the development of the coronavirus.

What is the impact of the omikronvariant?

Omikron is now the most common variant of the coronavirus. What does this mean for the Netherlands?

There are no more coronavirus risk levels on the dashboard. Why is that?

Because of the lower impact Omicron has had on hospitals, the use of risk levels is no longer relevant.

Hospital staff in consultation with each other.

How many people are currently in hospital?

This article provides more information on the figures presented on the dashboard page on ‘Hospital admissions per day’.

How many COVID-19 patients are there in ICUs?

We need to know how many ICU beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients in order to see whether there are enough ICU beds.

More and more people have completed their vaccination.

What is vaccination coverage and how is it calculated?

This article explains what vaccination coverage is and how is it calculated.

RIVM investigates what coronavirus variants are circulating.

How do we know what coronavirus variants there are?

New variants of the coronavirus are closely monitored. But how do we keep track of the different variants and how often they occur?

What is the COVID-19 mortality rate based on cause of death?

CBS publishes the mortality rate based on cause-of-death certificates. What exactly is this?

Employees are carrying out contact tracing

Why settings in which people may have become infected are not always shown on the dashboard

This article explains why information about situations in which people may have become infected sometimes is not available in certain regions.

How do we know how many infectious people there are?

It’s important to know how many people with the virus are infectious. In this article we explain how we estimate the number of infectious people in the Netherlands.

White circles in the grass to keep 1,5 meters away between people

What is the reproduction number and why is it always two weeks old?

What is the reproduction number and what does 'exponential growth' mean? And why is the reproduction number always 2 weeks old? We explain it in this article.

Impact of 6 million vaccinations reflected in fewer positive tests and hospital admissions

6 million vaccine doses have been administered so far. This article explains how we can see the effect of this in the number of positive tests and hospital admissions among the over-80s.

Age distribution of COVID patients in hospitals in the Netherlands

Two graphs on the Coronavirus Dashboard show the age distribution of people admitted to hospital with COVID-19. What do these graphs tell us?

What do the figures of the GGD test locations say?

Roughly three-fourths of all coronavirus test results come from these test centres. What do these figures say?

Positive tests: the spread of the virus

The dashboard contains a lot of information. What should you know about positive tests?

How coronavirus affects young and old

Coronavirus does not affect everyone to the same extent. Elderly people die more often than young people.

What are the implications of the UK coronavirus variant (Alpha variant) for the Netherlands?

The UK coronavirus variant is increasingly common in The Netherlands. What are the implications?

Are we sticking to the coronavirus rules?

If we all stick to the coronavirus rules, the number of infections will drop. But is this actually happening?

What’s meant by number of reported deaths?

The number COVID-19 deaths does not say how many people have died from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Why is that?

What’s meant by excess deaths?

In the figures on excess deaths you also see unreported COVID-19 deaths. But what are excess deaths?