Malta with the lowest occupancy of ITU COVID-19 in the EU
Malta had the lowest number of people in the ITU with COVID-19 last week compared to other European countries, new data showed.
With only 0.3 patients per 100,000 people in intensive care in the week ending Sunday, Malta’s ITU occupancy rate was the lowest in the EU, according to data from the European Center for -Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The data were published on Friday and cover the period ending on Sunday, when there were four patients in the ITU. This figure remained unchanged until Wednesday, when she was provided by the head of public health Charmaine Gauci. Times of Malta with an update.
According to ECDC data, the more general occupancy rate of hospitals in Malta is also among the lowest, although notably higher than that of the ITU at 11.1 per 100,000 patients. Only the Netherlands, Spain and Luxembourg have lower rates than Malta.
Although hospital numbers are low, something the health authorities have stressed is crucial when it comes to analyzing the situation of COVID-19, the ECDC still considers Malta to be the main concern.
Malta, for the second consecutive week, received a score of nine out of 10, the highest figure among all EU member states. This means that the country is now again classified as a “very major concern”.
Only France, Greece and Ireland are in this category, although their score is lower than that of Malta. The island’s score is the same as that found at the end of 2021 when record numbers were recorded and thousands of people had the virus.
The ECDC score is calculated on the basis of values for five different indicators: case notification rates, test rates and test positivity, hospital admission rates and intensive care admissions, occupancy, and mortality.
Malta has been facing an increase in the number of new cases that health authorities attribute to more people gathered, cold weather and the new more transmissible Omicron sub-variant.
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