Sciensano is organizing the last press conference of the week for the Interfederal Crisis Center at 11 a.m. in order to take stock of the epidemic in Belgium. The figures of this Friday on the evolution of the disease at home shows that the increase in new cases is slowing but that of deaths is accelerating. A trend that should explain the Crisis Center. An important conference when we know that next week could be held a new National Security Council. The first since that of July 27, which saw the contact bubble drop to 5 people.
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This Friday August 14, according to figures provided by Sciensano, we count 544 new contaminations compared to the balance sheet of the day before. Lhe number of new cases of Covid-19 in Belgium amounted to 605.7 per day on average over the seven-day period August 4-10, which is a 9% increase over the previous seven-day period.
The number of deaths due to Covid-19 in Belgium now stands at 9,916, or 16 more than the total communicated Thursday by Sciensano. Yesterday, there were 15 more. We therefore see that since Thursday, the daily average of deaths over a seven-day period has increased. It is now 5.3 per day.
Frederique Jacobsa spokesperson for the interfederal crisis center, Frédérique Jacobs, provided an update on the latest Covid-19 figures in our country and indicated that the spread of the coronavirus in our country
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