In the two weeks since the reopening of the Flemish schools, 0.05 percent of all students and 0.05 percent of all staff members have tested positive for the corona virus. This is evident from figures that Flemish Minister of Education Ben Weyts (N-VA) announced on Wednesday. But the differences between the provinces are big.
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A total of 638 students and 86 staff members tested positive. The differences between the provinces are large: no less than one third of the total number of infections took place in the province of Antwerp (218 students, 26 staff members), followed by East Flanders (155 students, 20 teachers), Flemish Brabant (90 pupils, 3 teachers), West Flanders (79 pupils, 14 teachers) and Brussels (55 pupils, 8 teachers). The province of Limburg did remarkably well with barely three percent of all infections (41 students and 8 teachers).
As a result of the corona infections, 4,278 students (0.36 percent) and 368 staff (0.22 percent) had to be in home isolation.