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We pay particular attention to COVID status reports out of Denmark because they have an excellent surveillance, testing, and reporting system, and trends in COVID transmission that are first reported in Northern Europe often appear in North America 4 to 6 weeks later.
For the second week in a row (see last week's The number of confirmed cases of covid-19 is increasing across the country) - after relatively quiet summer - Denmark's SSI is reporting an increased number of positive COVID cases, and increased hospital admissions.
While most of these are modest gains, COVID deaths have gone up from 33 last week to 47 this week, and hospital admissions have increased by 70% over the past 2 weeks (337 in week 36 to 573 in week 38). ICU admissions, however, have not increased.
The translated summary from the SSI follows. You'll find the Danish language PDF report HERE.BA.5 Continues to dominate the COVID field, accounting for more than 90% of cases.
Autumn is well underway and more people are being infected with covid-19
The positive covid-19 tests continue to rise here at the beginning of autumn, but more Danes are now also being PCR tested. This is shown in this week's trend report from the Statens Serum Institut.Last edited on October 6, 2022
After a period of decreasing or stable infection, there is an increase in the number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 from week 37 to week 39 in all five regions of the country. The incidence of infection is 144 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
There are the most infected in Region Zealand (172 per 100,000 inhabitants) and the fewest in the Capital Region (119 per 100,000 inhabitants). The positive percentage is increasing in Region Hovedstaden, Central Jutland and North Jutland and stable in Region Zealand and Southern Denmark. The highest positive percentage is still seen in Region Central Jutland at 20.9%.
The number of PCR tests has increased by 17% from week 38 to week 39, while the positive rate has increased from 16% in week 38 to 17% in week 39.
Increasing number of hospital admissions - but fewer are admitted to intensive care
Week 39 saw an increase in the number of new admissions from 457 admissions in week 38 to 573 in week 39, and it is still the 70-89-year-olds who make up the largest proportion of new admissions.
The number of admissions to intensive care units remains at a very low level. The number of covid-19-related deaths has increased in the past week and is in week 39 at 47 deaths.
There is still no excess mortality in the population.
Read the full report - Weekly trends for covid-19 and other respiratory infections - week 40 (pdf)
