Number of Covid 19 intensive care patients back below 1000 after weeks

A patient with a severe course of the Covid-19 disease is being treated in a room in the intensive care unit.

Corona has reduced the number of other clinic treatments by up to 25 percent in some cases Photo: picture alliance/dpa

From BZ/dpa

A trend or just a fluctuation?

For the first time since the beginning of July, the number of seriously ill people being treated with Covid-19 in intensive care units in Germany has fallen below 1,000.

This emerges from the daily report of the intensive care register of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI). According to this, there were 988 Covid 19 patients in intensive care units nationwide on Saturday – 54 fewer than the day before. 363 of them – 37 percent – were invasively ventilated.

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Most recently, the number of Covid intensive care patients was below 1000 on July 2nd.

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