Since week 12 have health professionals accounted for 21 per cent. of the tested, and in total they constitute 22 per cent. of the identified COVID-19-cases.
It shows a new report from Statens Serum Institut.
‘We can with the inventory not uncover smittested for the health professions, they can thus both be infected at and outside work,’ the report says.
In week 12 changed the criteria for testing to include healthcare professionals.
More than 10,000 healthcare professionals has now been tested.
This is equivalent to over 400 tested per 10,000 licensed healthcare professionals.
It also means, that among the infected see a predominance of women in the age group 30-59 years.
however, When focusing on inpatients, it appears that the disease predominantly severe course in older men.
