The number of infectious adults has decreased from 0.58 to 0.38 percent in a month and there are approximately 3,900 infectious adults in Estonia, the latest results of the University of Tartu s monitoring study show.
According to the data, every 280th adult is infectious and about half of adults have antibodies against the coronavirus.
Among over 65-year-olds, 80 percent have antibodies. Half of the 40-64-year-olds have antibodies, among 18-39-year-olds, less than a third have them.
Family medicine professor Ruth Kulda who led the study said that it proves the effectiveness of the restrictions and relaxations can be continued with. She added that there are no significant regional differences.
The freshly finished monitoring study shows that with four weeks, the rate of getting infected with the coronavirus has decreased by four times. 36 percent of adult Estonians now have antibodies, thanks to suffering from the virus or having been vaccinated.
From the study, it can be extrapolated that compared with its predecessor four weeks ago, the number of infected people has decreased by four times. The number of people with antibodies has increased significantly. We are currently at quite a good position compared with the situation four weeks ago, leader of the study, University of Tartu s family medicine professor doctor Ruth Kalda told ERR.
The latest stage of a COVID-19 monitoring study conducted by scientists of the University of Tartu shows that the coronavirus has spread in all 15 Estonian counties and its spread doubled over the holidays.
The primary results of the monitoring study, set to be finished by Tuesday, show that about 2.1 percent of Estonian population - every 50th person - is infectious in Estonia. 46 percent of those are asymptomatic and display no symptoms of the coronavirus. We could say there are 22,000 people that are infectious carriers of the virus. That is around twice as many than before the holidays, said the head of the survey, the University of Tartu Professor of Family Medicine, Ruth Kalda.