This Monday, May 4, Belgium entered its phase of deconfinement. Gradually, measures will be lifted to allow the population to resume part of its activities. Is it the right timing? Can we speak of a precipitous deconfinement?
Yves Van Laethem, inter-federal spokesperson for Covid-19, informed us about this on the set of RTL INFO 19h. “The criteria requested by different experts (for deconfinement) are met. We have enough tests, we have a draft tracing which should work next Monday, we have hospitals which are less busy as much in intensive care as in the news admissions. And we have the mask worn by the population and which seems to be fairly well worn in the means of transport. We have the basis we need to continue towards this second and first real stage of deconfinement “, he explains.
The numbers show it. The epidemic is slowing down on our territory. The number of deaths but also the number of hospital admissions are decreasing sharply.
When can we say that the epidemic is behind us?
“For WHO, the end of an epidemic is when there are more cases of the disease in a territory for twice the incubation period of the disease (14 days for Covid-19). so no more cases of Covid-19 in Belgium for 28 days. So you have to imagine that it will take a while “, specifies the infectiologist.
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