This Thursday, May 21, 252 new positive cases for the coronavirus were registered indicates Sciensano. There have also been 37 deaths reported in the past 24 hours and 141 patients have been discharged from the hospital.
►►► Read also : All our info on the coronavirus
The number of intensive care patients is down with 277 people, a decrease of 36 patients treated in the services during the last 24 hours. There were also 71 new hospitalizations recorded in the same period of time.
This number of new hospitalizations, even if it remains rather weak in comparison with the figures previously known, continues to rise appreciably for the fourth consecutive day. This Monday, April 18, our country recorded 43 new admissions to the Covid case hospital in the last 24 hours. They were 50 Tuesday, 58 Wednesday and therefore 71 this Thursday.
Figures that Nicolas Vandewalle, a professor at Uliège, carefully follows, who has developed a whole series of mathematical models of surveillance. And according to these models, we would be heading towards a resurgence of the epidemic: virus reproduction rate, according to the latest data, would be going back to above 1, that is to say that each infected person would contaminate more than one in turn.
–
“But it will take a few more days to see if the situation is confirmed“he commented. In any case, the countries which we take as models and which have deconfined, have indeed recorded a burst of the disease.”The whole thing is to be able to contain it“In any case, we are still very far from the peaks observed a few weeks ago …
–
