Sunday’s corna figures, incidentally, still fall within the downward trend in the chart (see image below) since it started at the beginning of December. National figures Nationally, 11,962 new positive tests have been reported. That is 639 less than yesterday. On average, the number of positive corona tests is also falling: in the past seven … Read more
The Society of Our Language has elected ‘wappie’ as the Our Language Word of 2021. The director of the language association, Vibeke Roeper, announced this on Dutch radio. A few days ago, ‘banging’ was already voted word of the year 2021 by Van Dale. – More than 32 percent of the members of Onze Talen … Read more
About 41 percent of the infections in Belgium are now caused by the omikron variant of the corona virus. Virologist Steven Van Gucht announced this on Friday at the press conference of the National Crisis Center. – Converted, this means that last week about 3,000 people were infected with the omikron variant, last week there … Read more
Stany Crets calls on Sunday afternoon to gather at the Muntplein in Brussels to protest against the closure of the cultural sector. ‘For the umpteenth time we are the black sheep. The slaughter lamb,” said the actor and theater maker on his Facebook page on Thursday. – The Consultative Committee decided on Wednesday to introduce … Read more
Winter temperatures also increase the risk of a false positive self-test. The story of of course professor Herman Goossens (UAntwerp) shows that once again. ‘Always store and perform your self-test at room temperature,’ says the virologist. – Professor Goossens was head of the testing task force until September, but he was also surprised on Sunday … Read more
The cabinet of Mark Rutte has only just been installed, or it had to intervene immediately against the threatening omikron variant. These are the measures. – It was no festive message that Prime Minister Mark Rutte had to bring: the Netherlands is going into lockdown again. The cabinet is following the advice of the Outbreak … Read more
Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary would rather not see people who have not been vaccinated against the corona virus on board. That’s what he said in the British newspaper The Telegraph. – O’Leary is not in favor of a mandatory vaccination program, as is currently the case in Germany and Austria. Instead, he says governments … Read more
At least thirty cases of contamination with the omikron variant are already known in Belgium. Virologist Steven Van Gucht announced this on Friday at the press conference of the National Crisis Center. – There are currently three contamination clusters in which the omikron variant roams that have a link with foreign countries. The infected persons … Read more
‘Jan, in two sentences you showed on Friday what you think about Flemish primary education.’ This was stated in an open letter from school director Gunter Aerts, which was widely shared on social media. The Prime Minister described the last week before the Christmas holidays as ‘pedagogically unimportant, with some reading and I know-a lot-what’. … Read more
Credit rating agency Moody’s has lowered the creditworthiness of Flanders. Minister of Finance and Budget Matthias Diependaele (N-VA) says he is “proud of the backing that we have provided to our entrepreneurs from Flanders”, and is working on a proposal to tackle the Flemish debt ratio. – The rating agency Moody’s lowered the creditworthiness of … Read more