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The Ministry of Health informed about 7 thousand. 569 cases of coronavirus infection in the past week. 19 people died during that time due to COVID-24. Last day there were 1647 cases.
- On July 12, for the first time since April, the daily statistics of infections exceeded two thousand cases. This translated into weekly data
- On 7-13 July, 7 thousand. 569 infections
- It is over 80 percent. more than last week
- There are currently 694 people in hospitals
- The R index for Poland is also growing, it is already over 1,6
- More information can be found on the Onet homepage
Infections are rising dramatically. Weekly health ministry report
On July 13, the Ministry of Health published a weekly report of infections and deaths from COVID-19.
For the period 𝟬𝟳.𝟬𝟳.𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮-𝟭𝟯.𝟬𝟳.𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 𝗿. we have 7 (including 569 reinfections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the following voivodeships: Mazowieckie (1630), Śląskie (919), Małopolskie (708), Pomorskie (585), Dolnośląskie (565), Wielkopolskie (538), Łódzkie (416), Zachodniopomorskie (336), Kujawsko-Pomorskie (323), Lublin (284), Warmian-Masurian (253), Podkarpackie (206), Świętokrzyskie (189), Opole (174), Podlasie (167), Lubuskie (147).
129 infections are data without indicating the address, which will be completed by the sanitary inspection. Due to COVID-19, 2 people died, 19 people died due to the coexistence of COVID-22 with other diseases.
Number of coronavirus infections 6 026 134/116 464 (all positive / including deceased persons).
For comparison, in the previous week, i.e. June 30 – July 6, 4163 coronavirus infections were recorded, most of the voivodships: Mazowieckie (931), Śląskie (541) and Małopolskie (384). This means that the number of cases increased by over 80% every week.
19 people died then due to COVID-16.
According to data from the Ministry of Health on July 13 Last day, 1647 coronavirus infections were recorded in Poland. Six people have died from COVID-19. Nine people recovered.
In the last 24 hours, 6 thousand. 473 virus tests. This means that as much as 25 percent. the results were positive.
How was it the week before? On Wednesday, July 6, the Ministry of Health reported 964 infections. This is an increase of 683.
How many people are in hospitals?
The number of hospitalized people is also growing. The latest data from the Ministry of Health show about 694 COVID-19 patients staying in hospitals. A week earlier it was 449 people, two weeks earlier – 338.
– For us, infections are not that important compared to the more important statistics, i.e. the number of hospitalized people. This is the most important data in the epidemic, it says about the burden on the health care system – he said on Wednesday in the program “Onet Rano.” MZ spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz.
He also said that there are three variants of forecasts for the further development of the current wave. The peak of infections would be from August to November. – We assume several tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases a day, and in the worst case scenario, we assume 10 thousand. people in hospitals, in the neutral variant up to 5 thousand. hospitalized people, he admitted.
Very high R index
In addition to the (increasing) number of infections and the percentage of positive results for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, another element that tells us at what point in the epidemic we are is the R index. This is the virus reproduction rate that shows how many more people can be infected by one sick person. A value greater than 1 indicates that the epidemic is in an ascending wave, a value less than 1 indicates that it is waning.
The data on the R index is published by the Ministry of Health on a weekly basis, but on Twitter, several people present it every day, based on the ministry’s data. One of them is Adam Gapiński who regularly publishes detailed figures, maps and charts.
The table from July 12 shows that the current average for Poland is 1,67. This figure was last seen at the end of January, with the fifth coronavirus wave and record numbers of daily infections.
In the province Warmińsko-Mazurskie and Zachodniopomorskie, the R indicator exceeded even 2, the indicator in the voivodship is approaching this limit. Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.
The next wave of coronavirus did not surprise anyone. However, a few months ago, experts predicted that it would happen right after the summer holidays, as it was the case in the previous two years. Why did he come up earlier?
– The summer wave of coronavirus infections and other infections has come quite violently, perhaps because we are experiencing rapid changes in the weather and climate change. In addition, people travel very intensively, trying to catch up with the pandemic, and the new so-called the Omikron sub-variant spreads extremely efficiently – explained in an interview with PAP Prof. Krystyna Bieńkowska-Szewczyk, head of the Department of Molecular Biology of Viruses at the Institute of Biotechnology of the University of Gdańsk.
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The virologist also noted that the actual scale of infections is much larger than the official data of the Ministry of Health show.. – We do not know how many infections there are in Poland. At the moment, we do not have any way of understanding the scale of infections, because very few people are tested in Poland. People who test themselves privately are not reported – emphasized prof. Bieńkowska-Szewczyk.
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