Even if the number of patients does not really increase at the same rate as the number of infected, there is still a significant increase and care is still very strained.
On January 4, 281 people will be cared for for covid-19 in a hospital in the Stockholm Region.
This is an increase of 38 patients in one week.
The proportion who tested positive has also increased sharply, almost 30 percent of the samples analyzed in week 52 showed positive, a very high proportion according to chief physician Johan Bratt.
During the period 28 December to 3 January, 19,220 new cases of covid-19 infection were found, a 99% increase compared with the week before.