In total, 151 individuals are being treated in hospital due to symptomatic COVID-19

As of the morning of 28 April, hospital treatment is being provided to 151 individuals who have been infected with COVID-19. A total of sixty-one patients who have COVID-19 are currently receiving hospital treatment after having developed severe symptoms, including thirty-one patients or 50.2% of the overall figure who have not been vaccinated, and thirty patients or 49.8% who have been fully vaccinated.

The average hospitalisation rate for the last seven days for every 100,000 members of the country’s vaccinated population is 0.4 people a day, while for the unvaccinated population the figure is 1.1.

Eighteen new COVID-19 cases have been opened by hospitals within the past 24 hours; in seven of those cases, the patients required hospitalisation due to symptomatic COVID-19. On average within the past seven days, 7.1 new patients each day who exhibit signs of symptomatic COVID-19 infection have been hospitalised. Four deaths have been added of individuals who were infected by COVID-19, involving a 71 year-old woman, a 74 year-old woman, an 80 year-old man, and an 87 year-old woman. Three of those individuals had not been vaccinated.

The last 24 hours have also seen 2,356 tests being analysed in Estonia in relation to coronavirus, of which the results of 327 were positive. The average infection rate in the last seven days for every 100,000 members of the country’s vaccinated population is twenty, and for the unvaccinated population the figure is twenty-five.

A total of 317 vaccine doses have been administered over the past 24 hours, with fifty-nine individuals receiving their first injections. As of this morning, 452,660 individuals have received their additional or booster doses. Of the total population in Estonia, 63.5% have received two vaccine doses.