Although transmission of the virus continues, MERS was not listed as the main cause of any deaths at a Helsinki hospital in October.
Covid-19 infection continues to spread in hospitals in the Helsinki region, especially among elderly patients.
On Friday, epidemic cases were announced in six departments out of 25 wards of the Helsinki City Hospital. Hospital officials told Yle that transmission of the coronavirus also occurred between patients who lived in different rooms.
“Unfortunately, since the beginning of the Omicron wave last December, there has been no time without patient-to-patient transmission in some departments of Helsinki Hospital,” he said. Laura BeccarininMedical Director of Helsinki City Hospital.
As of Friday, about 30 patients have been injured in the latest wave of bombings in the hospital system. The majority of patients are in four-bed rooms.
“It’s very rare that a roommate doesn’t get sick if the other one gets sick,” Bekarinen said.
Symptoms are mostly mild
Hospital departments in Vantaa, just north of the capital, have also been plagued by Covid epidemics. Two weeks ago, an epidemic began in the 25-bed ward of Katrina Hospital, and more than 10 elderly patients were left in a fragile state.
Symptoms were mostly mild, and some of those infected remained nearly asymptomatic, according to Annariina Jyvälahti, medical director of the Vantaa Hospital. However, the virus weakens the condition of the elderly and slows recovery and rehabilitation, Jyvälahti said. Because of this, the treatment periods become longer.
It can also make an elderly person more susceptible to influenza, norovirus, or rhinovirus.
Few deaths directly due to Covid
However, Covid has been directly blamed in recent times with very few deaths.
In Helsinki hospital wards, Covid infection was recorded as a direct or contributing cause of death on 30 death certificates in October – but not as a leading cause of death in one case.
According to the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), about 40 percent of coronavirus-related deaths occur in city hospital wards, 30 percent in nursing homes, 25 percent in specialized care units and the rest at home or elsewhere.
The average age of those who died of Covid-related causes has risen to 85, rising to 81 for men and 87 for women.
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