the Number of deaths with the corona virus has risen by seven since the last statement Saturday. 499 is in the hospital.

the Number of deaths with coronasmittede persons is now 72 in Denmark.

It is seven persons more than at the latest statement on Saturday. It informs the Statens Serum Institut.

499 persons are now hospitalized infected with the coronavirus. This is an increase of 40 since Saturday. In the course of the past week is the number of inpatients increased by between 20 and 49 people each day.

131 of them are located on a critical care unit, and 113 have use of the respirator.

in total There are found 2395 infected with the coronavirus in Denmark. Saturday was the number 2201.

reservations are taken for large mørketal. The number of positive cases is not equal to the total number infected in Denmark, since individuals with mild or no symptoms not being tested.

Therefore, there will be many who are infected, but not recorded in the statistics.

The 72 persons who are dead is not necessarily dead of Covid-19 (the disease resulting from the corona virus, red.).

the Deaths included in the statistics, if one is dead, no later than 60 days after you were tested positive for the virus.

Health authorities have started to test more, and Sunday, the total number of tested up on the 20.198.

It is 1388 more than the inventory on Saturday.

the Goal is, according to the Danish Health and medicines authority to test 5000 people a day. It will correspond to the levels in Norway, which has a population close to the Danish.

the national board of Health estimates that up against the 580,000 danes – about ten percent of the population – will be infected with corona virus in the first wave of the disease in the course of the spring.

Out of those infected, up to 11.200 danes be so sick of coronavirusset that they need to be hospitalized, and 2800 should have intensive treatment, sounds the assessment.

Anders Koch, who is a senior physician at the Infektionsepidemiologi and Prevention, which falls under the Statens Serum Institut, said Saturday to the newspaper Politiken, that the latest developments in coronatilfælde give cause for optimism and may indicate that the policy measures are made to limit the infection, works.

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