Too little to be serious, says virologist Marc Van Ranst after the Consultation Committee. And unlike his colleagues, he sees solutions outside of education. “You shouldn’t overestimate the importance of education,” he said in front of the cameras To the point. “The absence rate is certainly not higher than in a flu epidemic. I would even say lower. ”
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But the corona numbers continue to rise. And you cannot stop that by postponing proposed relaxation. Van Ranst calls the decisions of the Consultation Committee a “strategy of hope”. “We hope that the numbers will fall again. With the risk that we’ll have to say in a few weeks if only we if only we had …”
What then had to be done? Some of the measures of the virologists’ plan B would help. An earlier country-wide curfew, for example. Possibly locking up large shopping centers or busy shopping streets. Although that is very sensitive to politics and large parts of the population. “Actually, it should be a package of measures,” says Van Ranst. He points out that our country has the most lenient measures in Europe. “We have lost sight of that, because they are starting to weigh in, of course. They are very annoying, but we run more risks like that. ”
It cannot be ruled out that the Consultation Committee will have to meet again soon in order to pull the emergency brake harder. Nobody wants that. But if the figures do take the exponential flight, then there is nothing else for it. “If only we had …”, as Van Ranst puts it.
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