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Table 1 Number of patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection admitted to general hospitals, per epidemiological week, as reported in the Clinical survey and in Surge Capacity survey up to the 27th of June 2020, Belgium

From: Rapid establishment of a national surveillance of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Belgium

Epidemiological week of diagnosis

Patients included in the Clinical surveya; N (%)

Total patients newly admitted in Belgian hospitals (SC survey)b

W 8 (16–22/02/2020)

2

NA

W 9 (23–29/02/2020)

7

NA

W 10 (30/02–07/03/2020)

23

NA

W 11 (8–14/03/2020)

219

NA

W 12 (15–21/03/2020)

1308 (102%)

1277

W 13 (22–28/03/2020)

3290 (104%)

3171

W 14 (29/03–04/04/2020)

2986 (80%)

3731

W 15 (05–11/04/2020)

2099 (72%)

2897

W 16 (12–18/04/2020)

1238 (63%)

1960

W 17 (19–25/04/2020)

805 (53%)

1507

W 18 (26/04–02/05/2020)

487 (45%)

1083

W 19 (03–09/05/2020)

351 (43%)

818

W 20 (10–16/05/2020)

238 (38%)

627

W 21 (17–23/05/2020)

154 (30%)

506

W 22 (24–30/05/2020)

106 (30%)

354

W 23 (31/05–06/06/2020)

55 (21%)

265

W 24 (07–13/06/2020)

60 (26%)

229

W 25 (14–20/06/2020)

24 (14%)

169

W 26 (21–27/06/2020)

14 (10%)

144

  1. a Number of patients recorded in the Clinical survey, admitted to general hospitals with a laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (excluding patients diagnosed by chest computed tomography scan only) who were not referred from another hospital nor readmitted after a first COVID-19 related hospitalization
  2. b Number of patients admitted to the hospital with a COVID-19 laboratory-confirmation available at the moment of reporting (including both COVID-19-related admissions and hospital admissions for other reasons diagnosed with COVID-19 through screening) and who were not referred from another hospital. All general hospitals in Belgium are included in the Surge Capacity survey. Starting from the 15th of March, > 99% of hospitals were reporting daily