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The downward trend in the number of people hospitalized, hospitalized and treated in intensive care units and the number of deaths due to the epidemic continued in Belgium, where the average daily number of new infections fell by 41% compared to the week before 4165. reported by the competent Belgian Institute of Public Health.
The report said that an average of 316.4 people were hospitalized per day during the week, 34 percent more than the previous week. Since the outbreak, 40,498 people have been hospitalized in Belgium in connection with the infection.
Currently, the hospital serves 5,017 people, 7 percent less than a week ago. 1,201 patients receive intensive care, 4 percent less than the data published a week ago. During the week, an average of 172 people died of complications from the infection, a 16.2 percent decrease from one week.
Since the outbreak, the new type of coronavirus has suffered 15,522 victims in Belgium. The majority, 7,215, died in Flanders, the Flemish-speaking province in the north of the country, 6,045 in the southern French-speaking Wallonia and 2,262 in the Brussels region, due to infection.
In the state of Benelux, 12,520 people have died so far from a complication caused by the coronavirus.
The proportion of positive virus tests nationwide is 16.4 percent. 556,904 people in the country have been infected since the outbreak.
In an article published Sunday in the French-language Belgian daily La Libre Belgique, it reported that an American pharmaceutical company called Pfizer plans to manufacture its coronavirus vaccine, developed jointly with Germany’s BioNTech, at its plant outside of Belgium.
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