In total, 597 individuals are being treated in hospital due to symptomatic COVID-19

As of the morning of 16 March, hospital treatment is being provided to 597 individuals who have been infected with COVID-19. A total of 244 patients who have COVID-19 are currently receiving hospital treatment after having developed severe symptoms, including 152 patients or 62.3% of the overall figure who have not been vaccinated, and 92 patients or 37.7% 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 1.5 people a day, while for the unvaccinated population the figure is five.

Seventy-four new COVID-19 cases have been opened by hospitals within the past 24 hours; in 26 of those cases, the patients required hospitalisation due to symptomatic COVID-19. On average within the past ten days, 24.6 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 an 84 year-old man, an 87 year-old woman, an 88 year-old man, and also a one hundred year-old woman. Two of those individuals had not been vaccinated.

The last 24 hours have also seen 5,149 tests being analysed in Estonia in relation to coronavirus, of which the results of 2,137 were positive. The average infection rate for the last seven days for every 100,000 members of the country's vaccinated population is 134, while for the unvaccinated population the figure is 154.

A total of 661 vaccine doses have been administered over the past 24 hours, with 59 individuals receiving their first injections. As of this morning, 438,778 individuals had received their additional or booster doses. Of the total population in Estonia, 63.3% have received two vaccine doses.

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