The Brussels region is the second to exceed the threshold of five new daily cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
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After the province of Antwerp, the Brussels region is the second to exceed the threshold of 5 new daily cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Part of this increase is linked to the increase in testing. But there is also a more intense transmission of the virus.
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Today’s report
The average daily death rate also continues to rise slightly, to three fatal cases for each day of the past week (+ 31% compared to the previous count period). Sciensano indicates, as yesterday, a total of 9,852 victims of the coronavirus in Belgium.
The incidence index – which takes into account the number of new confirmed cases of coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants – is 54 for the period from July 20 to August 2 in Belgium (+198% compared to the previous counting period).
A total of 443.1 new cases per day, on average, were diagnosed over the same period. For the week of July 27 to August 2, that number climbs to 530.9, Sciensano said in Thursday’s dashboard data update.
The total number of Sars-CoV-2 infections identified in the territory is now 71,158, or 510 more than Wednesday morning.
The average number of hospital admissions is 24 per day (+ 35%) over the same period of time, for a total of 18,359 since the start of the epidemic.
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