This insists on the need to strengthen public awareness of the efforts required to contain the pandemic. Contamination figures have been rising steadily in Brussels for several weeks.
Over the last seven days, 675 cases have been observed, an increase of 54% on a weekly basis. The mask is now compulsory everywhere in the capital, where we have reached 55.4 contaminations per 100,000 inhabitants. Hospital admissions were 71, an increase of 26%.
“Five to six percent of the tests carried out last week were positive,” detailed Inge Neven, head of Cocom’s hygiene inspection service. “The demand has increased, pushing us to double the capacity, because of people returning from a red zone and those who need a test to go on vacation.”
All the staff of the 137 Brussels nursing homes will also be tested “in order to obtain a picture of the situation”.
On the tracing side, the workforce has been increased at the call center and the monitoring of households has been stepped up in partnership with municipalities and local authorities, Ms. Neven further explained.
The manager finally insisted on the importance of quarantine when one has been in contact with an infected person, even in the event of a negative test.
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