Belgium

The decline in the number of Belgians contracting the coronavirus appears to be halting. Some more corona patients were even admitted to the hospital.   "That is a bit worrisome," says virologist Steven Van Gucht, who speaks on behalf of the Belgian corona crisis centre. Van Gucht sees "still a slight decrease" in the number of corona infections and hospital admissions. "But if we look at the last three days like this, we can almost speak of a stabilization", certainly in Flanders and the province of Luxembourg. It is still guesswork what exactly is going on, the virologist said at a new press conference from the crisis centre. He does not rule out that Belgians who go to work or shop across the border in the Netherlands and Luxembourg, where the coronavirus is currently more pre...

The decline in the number of new coronavirus infections in Belgium continues. The number of hospital admissions and admissions to intensive care units also continues to decline.   "We see the declines in all age groups," said virologist Steven Van Gucht at a crisis centre press conference. According to Van Gucht, it seems that "the efforts of everyone" avoid the worst conceivable scenario in the healthcare sector. He hopes that the number of patients on ICs will no longer increase, but the situation in hospitals is still "challenging". Currently, 7058 people are in hospital, 1470 of whom are in ICs. For the first time since September, the number of corona patients required to be admitted to intensive care continued to decrease slightly daily averaged over a week. For the first ti...

Corona rates in Belgium continue to rise across the country. Nearly 3,000 Covid-19 patients have been admitted to Belgian hospitals, virologist Steven Van Gucht said during a press conference of the health authorities.   There may be first signs that the spread of the virus is slowing down. The number of new infections doubles every nine days, compared to every seven days last week, according to Van Gucht. There were 2,969 people in the hospital on Tuesday. According to the latest figures, an average of 295 people was admitted each day between October 14 and 20, an increase of 94 percent from the previous week. On average, 8975, new corona cases were added daily. By the way, the laboratories stopped testing people who have no symptoms on Tuesday due to under capacity. The provinc...