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Deputy Prime Minister Petra De Sutter (Green): “Flanders will not and …

Deputy Prime Minister De Sutter

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“Flanders will have no choice but to take measures”. Federal Deputy Prime Minister Petra De Sutter (Groen) said this on Sunday in a debate in The Seventh Day.

Microbiologist Herman Goossens and Margot Cloet from Zorgnet-Icuro are also very concerned. “Flanders is taking a risk”, says Cloet. According to Goossens, one should not hope for a fundamental improvement by the holidays either. “We will be in this situation until summer. This virus will continue to circulate for months ”.

Corona numbers continue to rise sharply. While both the Walloon and Brussels governments have taken stricter measures in recent days, Flanders is sticking to the measures laid down in the last Consultation Committees. Prime Minister Jan Jambon first wants to await the effect of those measures.

“Major concerns”

But according to Federal Deputy Prime Minister Petra De Sutter, Flanders “cannot do anything else” to take additional measures on top of the “federal plinth”. Margot Cloet of the Zorgnet-Icuro care umbrella is also “very concerned” and is insisting on additional measures. According to her, Flanders is “taking a risk” by not intervening now.

According to Cloet, the hospitals are under enormous pressure and the number of hospital admissions will soon be “through the ceiling in March”. “Instead of discussing measures, let us take it seriously,” says Cloet.

Cloet therefore does not believe in a wait-and-see attitude or the ‘golden mean’ advocated by health economist Lieven Annemans, among others. “This virus does not have a happy medium,” says Cloet. Stricter measures are needed to safeguard health care. She argues in favor of inserting a kind of “break in society”.

Health economist Lieven Annemans has received a lot of criticism in recent weeks for his earlier statements about the approach to the virus. Annemans maintains that the current situation “did not come about through relaxation”, but rather because people, for example, dropped out because of the “daily fear messages”.

While Minister De Sutter hopes that the measures will ensure that the curve will flatten, microbiologist Herman Goossens (UZ Antwerp) is tempering hope for the holidays: “This situation will last until the summer. This virus will continue to circulate for months ”.

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