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He had come to give a little joy to a retirement home in Mol, Belgium. But Santa Claus, in addition to gifts, unknowingly brought Covid with him. The current figure is 26 elderly dead. The retirement home is located near Antwerp and houses 169 people. There are currently 85 positive cases among guests and 40 among health workers. There is no certainty that the virus was brought by Santa Claus, but the outbreak broke out a few days after the visit of the man in the mask, who then tested positive, which took place on December 5. Virologist Marc Van Ranst carried out a phylogenetic analysis of the viruses of those infected and concluded that more than 90% can be traced back to a single parent, therefore to a single source of infection. Some of the photos published by Belgian radio and television show too close encounters between Santa Claus, his assistant “Pietro Nero” and the elderly.
A commissioner with extraordinary powers will soon be appointed to manage the crisis within the RSA. You will also have the difficult task of managing relationships with relatives. Nursing homes were to be the first places to get vaccinations, but a negligible number of doses have arrived so far. The vaccination campaign will start in Belgium only on January 5. But there will hardly be any residual smiles for Befana. Belgium is the country with the most Covid victims in the world in relation to its inhabitants. Amnesty International had already denounced the state of neglect in which the nursing homes in the country remained. In the RSA, 57% of the victims of the coronavirus were registered.
