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In Belgium, the daily average of new confirmed coronavirus infections has exceeded a thousand, local press wrote on Saturday.
According to the latest statistics from the Belgian National Institute of Public Health, an average of 1,071 people tested positive for coronavirus per day last week. The infection is spreading faster and faster, with the number of new cases per day increasing by 77 percent in the past two weeks. The weekly record was measured on Monday when health authorities recorded 1,717 new infections.
According to the Institute of Public Health, about 2.8 million tests have been performed daily since the local outbreak, and about 32,300 tests have been performed daily in the last seven days. Currently 390 patients need hospital care, 5 percent more than on Friday, and 78 people are treated in the intensive care unit, nine more than the day before. An average of 41 people were hospitalized per day during the week, more than the 22 hospital admissions per day reported the previous week and more than double the average of 15.7 in the previous week.
Last week, an average of 2.7 deaths per day were reported, a figure that is essentially the same as the figures recorded the previous week. Since the local outbreak, 9,937 people have died from the disease in Belgium. The focal point of the infections remains the Flemish region.
The epidemic situation in neighboring Netherlands has also deteriorated. According to data on Saturday from the Dutch Public Health Service, 8,265 new cases were confirmed in the last seven days, compared with 5,427 in the previous week. The government announced restrictive measures on Friday night. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the situation is alarming, so new provisions are needed to avoid a complete shutdown.
The measures, which go into effect on Sunday, require catering establishments to close at 1 am and the provisions prohibit social events for more than 50 people. Exceptions to the latter are religious gatherings, funerals, demonstrations, and theatrical performances.
In the country of 17.5 million people, so far more than 90,000 cases have been registered and almost 6,300 people have been victims of the Covid-19 disease.
(MTI)
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