Coronavirus figures and developments explained.
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With Infectieradar, RIVM researches health complaints that may be associated with an infection with a virus.
In this article you learn more about advice for the elderly and people with fragile health (risk groups)
In this article we explain how virus particles in waste water are measured to monitor the development of the virus.
The thermometer shows the state of the influence on society and the healthcare sector caused by the corona virus.
Fewer updates, still keeping track of the virus.
Wastewater sampling will play a more prominent role in monitoring the development of the coronavirus.
Omicron is now the most common variant of the coronavirus. What does this mean for the Netherlands?
This article provides more information on the figures presented on the dashboard page on ‘Hospital admissions per day’.
We need to know how many ICU beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients in order to see whether there are enough ICU beds.
This article explains what vaccination coverage is and how is it calculated.
New variants of the coronavirus are closely monitored. How do we keep track of the different variants?
CBS publishes the mortality rate based on cause of death certificates. What is this exactly?
What exactly is the reproduction number and ‘exponential growth’? And why is the reproduction number two weeks old?
The effect of 6 million vaccine doses can be seen in the number of positive tests and hospital admissions.
Two graphs on the Coronavirus Dashboard show the age distribution of people admitted to hospital with COVID-19. What do these graphs tell us?
Roughly three-fourths of all coronavirus test results come from these test centres. What do these figures say?
The dashboard contains a lot of information. What should you know about positive tests?
Coronavirus does not affect everyone to the same extent. Elderly people die more often than young people.
If we all stick to the coronavirus rules, the number of infections will drop. But is this actually happening?
The number COVID-19 deaths does not say how many people have died from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Why is that?
In the figures on excess mortality you also see unreported COVID-19 deaths. But what is excess mortality?