In total, 156 individuals are being treated in hospital due to symptomatic COVID-19

As of the morning of 29 April, hospital treatment is being provided to 156 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 50.8% 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 0.5 people a day, while for the unvaccinated population the figure is 1.1.

Twenty-six 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, 6.1 new patients each day who exhibit signs of symptomatic COVID-19 infection have been hospitalised. One death has been added of an individual who was infected by COVID-19, involving a 69 year-old man who had been vaccinated.

The last 24 hours have also seen 2,382 tests being analysed in Estonia in relation to coronavirus, of which the results of 292 were positive. The average infection rate in the last seven days for every 100,000 members of the country’s vaccinated population is nineteen, and for the unvaccinated population the figure is twenty-four.

A total of 356 vaccine doses have been administered over the past 24 hours, with seventy-two individuals receiving their first injections. As of this morning, 452,929 individuals have received their additional or booster doses. Of the total population in Estonia, 63.5% have received two vaccine doses.

Further information can be found on the Health Board’s website: www.terviseamet.ee/en/coronavirus/coronavirus-dataset