For the famous virologist, the figures given daily by the public health institution Sciensano do not speak enough to people.
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If some experts remain moderate, Marc Van Ranst has never hidden his concern at the increase in the number of cases of contamination with coronavirus in Belgium in recent days. This Tuesday again, Sciensano identified 74 cases of Covid-19 more than the previous day, which brings to 62,781 the total number of cases found in Belgium.
There has been an average of 95.3 cases reported daily in the past seven days, an increase of 11%. And this average has been going up for six days in a row. In the columns of Newspaper, virologist Marc Van Ranst sounds the alarm and ensures that a second wave is inevitable: “And it will be all of us.”
For him, the averages communicated by Sciensano, the institute of public health, are not clear for the population: “They communicate the average, which is today 95 new cases per day. But in one day, we sometimes end up with more than 100 new cases, even 130. The numbers are increasing day by day, but only a little bit on average. ” According to him, people are therefore “asleep” by these figures which change very little.
For Marc Van Ranst, the daily average of new cases will exceed 100 next week: “We only see small increases, which do not bother us. Ok, if we look at the overall curve, it’s not very worrying, the figures remain low, but we have to wake up ”.
Worried… from the start
And when asked if you need to start worrying, “Start? To be honest, I worry constantly. When we laugh with the virus, as some mayors of the coast do, we see the consequences directly. ”
For Marc Van Ranst, a second wave is therefore inevitable: “It is a bizarre virus. And we don’t behave well according to him. As a virologist, we can only repeat the importance of respecting security measures. Social distancing, wearing a mask… We cannot be clearer, and yet we are still seeing new cases… ”
Marc Van Ranst is also very critical of “tracing”. According to him, it is not known who the new cases are and how they were infected.
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