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Belgium recorded 660 new confirmed cases of covid-19 and 111 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to official data released today.
According to today’s epidemiological bulletin, in the last 24 hours, 660 new positive cases of contamination with the new coronavirus were recorded (compared to 525 on Wednesday), for a total of 48,519.
In the last 24 hours, there were 111 deaths, a decrease from the 170 released the previous day, totaling 7,594 deaths in Belgium from covid-19 since the start of the pandemic in the country.
In the last 24 hours, 178 people were hospitalized (174 on Wednesday), for a total of 15,239, and 293 were discharged (340 the previous day), which is equivalent to 11,576 since March 15.
According to the bulletin, the week that began on April 6 had the highest gross death rate: 37.2 per thousand inhabitants.
That week, 4,254 people died this year, compared to 1,960 in the same week in 2019 and 2,158 in 2018.
The first case of the covid-19 pandemic in Belgium was identified on February 4, but the data only started to be collected in all hospitals on March 15.
Deaths in nursing homes and nursing homes did not begin to be included in the daily count until April 10 and cover confirmed and suspected cases of coronavirus infection.
Globally, according to a report by the AFP news agency, the covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 224,000 deaths and infected approximately 3.2 million people in 193 countries and territories.
About 890,000 patients were considered cured.
In Portugal, 973 of the 24,505 people confirmed to be infected died, and there are 1,470 cases recovered, according to the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
To combat the pandemic, governments sent 4.5 billion people home (more than half the world’s population), ended non-essential trade and dramatically reduced air traffic, paralyzing entire sectors of the world economy.
With the decline in new patients in intensive care and contagion, some countries have begun to develop plans to reduce confinement and, in some cases, to alleviate various measures.
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