According to Region Skåne, the number of confirmed covid cases is increasing.

The number of infections is now 134 per day during the last seven-day period.

This can be compared with a month ago when the corresponding figure was 56 cases per day.

At the Scanian hospitals, a total of 26 patients are now cared for with covid-19, of which 23 in wards and 3 in the intensive care unit.

One month ago, 8 people were cared for in hospital.

At most 630 people were in hospital on 7 January.

Highest in Landskrona

In terms of the number of inhabitants, the spread of infection was highest in Landskrona and Malmö last week.

There, 116 and 85 people per 100,000 became infected with covid-19 during the week.

Hörby and Östra Göinge had the lowest number of infections, where 6 people per 100,000 inhabitants were infected.