Belgium - Coronavirus Covid-19 - 90,568 cases,?9,917 deaths?

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Belgium says coronavirus peak still ahead



By Marine Strauss
Reuters26 March 2020Spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in BrusselsMore
By Marine Strauss

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The peak of Belgium's coronavirus infections still lies ahead, the health ministry said on Thursday, adding much will depend on how strictly people follow lockdown measures.

Belgium, a country of some 11.5 million people, has so far confirmed 6,235 coronavirus cases and reported 220 deaths due to the disease, which is now ravaging Europe after originating in China late last year.

The government will discuss on Friday whether to extend the lockdown, meant to curb the spread of the virus, beyond April 5.

 

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https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-ne...64-new-deaths/

In the last 24 hours, 1,850 new cases of infection by the coronavirus (Covid-19) have been confirmed in Belgium, according to the government crisis centre’s daily press conference.

The new cases bring the total to 9,134 confirmed cases in Belgium.

The new numbers were divided among the three regions: 823 (44%) in Flanders, 875 (47%) in Wallonia and 134 (7%) in Brussels. The sudden increase in cases in Wallonia – 875 today, up from 131 yesterday – was explained by the fact that one major testing centre was reporting cases, some 500 in all, not only from the last 24 hours but from the past several days.

That implies that figures from recent days, both overall and in relation to Wallonia in particular, have been distorted, and that the large increase reported today does not accurately reflect the daily evolution.

 

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https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/n...um-877526.html

BRUSSELS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 29th March, 2020) Belgium confirmed 1,702 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, which brings the total number of infected people in the country to 10,836, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.

 

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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSt...eaths-69889393

BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities say a 12-year-old girl has died of the coronavirus, by far the youngest person among the more than 700 victims in the country.

Announcing the news Tuesday, national crisis-center coronavirus spokesman Emmanuel Andre said it is “an emotionally difficult moment, because it involves a child, and it has also upset the medical and scientific community.”

“We are thinking of her family and friends. It is an event that is very rare, but one which upsets us greatly,” Andre said. No details about the girl were provided.

He said that 98 people had died from the disease over the last 24 hours, bringing the total toll to 705 in a country of around 11.5 million people. More than 12,705 cases have been confirmed in total so far.

Andre said that Belgian authorities expect the spread of the disease to reach its peak in coming days, and that “we will arrive at a point where we’re close to saturation point at our hospitals.”

 

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12-year-old Belgian girl from Ghent dies from coronavirus: Europe's youngest victim

Published on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 12:08 p.m. - Updated Tuesday March 31, 2020 at 5:12 pm

The FPS Public Health, as every day, took stock of the coronavirus epidemic in our country. Virologists have announced the death of a 12-year-old girl, the youngest European victim today.
After the painful deaths of Vitor, Portuguese, 14 , and Julie, French, 16 , the youngest deceased coronavirus victim identified in Europe is Belgian. " It is an emotionally very difficult moment because it affects a child and it also affects the medical and scientific community. We especially think of his family and loved ones ", commented, not without emotion, the inter-federal spokesperson Emmanuel Andr? at the daily press conference . "It is an event that is very rare but that upsets us, " he said. Steven Van Gucht, another spokesperson, said the 12-year-old girl died on Saturday."She tested positive for coronavirus. Within three days, her condition suddenly deteriorated due to a high fever and she died on Saturday," he said. Van Gucht said on the VTM television news that the girl was not suffering from an underlying disease. "This is what we know at the moment, but we are awaiting confirmations," he said.

Indeed, this death is an exception because young people are not the people most affected by the coronavirus. But neither are they naturally immune, and deaths can occur, too, in the younger age groups.

She hadn't been to school since March 13

The 12-year-old victim had not been to school since March 13, said the city of Ghent, where he was from. She had not had contact with the school team for three weeks.

The City of Ghent and its teachers express their sympathy and are in close contact with the girl's family to support them, we learned Tuesday afternoon. "We are asking everyone to give the family the peace and space they need to cope with this situation."

"It is particularly tragic. As a human being and a father, I am very deeply affected," said bourgmestre Mathias De Clercq (Open Vld). "Ghent and the whole country are united in immense pain. Our thoughts and sympathies go out to the family, to the De Harp school community. As a city, we will give them our full support during this extremely difficult period."

This little twelve-year-old Belgian is the youngest victim of the coronavirus in Belgium, but also in Europe. Last Sunday, Portugal announced the death of a young boy of fourteen, who however did not present any particular pathology before being contaminated by Covid-19. In France, a 16-year-old girl also died, affected by " an extremely rare severe form " of the virus.

https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/soc...e-victime-europeenne-5e83168cd8ad58163193cf35

 

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Coronavirus: Death toll in Belgium reaches 828
Wednesday, 01 April 2020

828 people have died of the consequences of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) in Belgium since the beginning of the pandemic, the FPS Public Health said during a daily press briefing on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, 123 new deaths were reported, 56 of which occurred in Flanders, 43 in Wallonia, and 24 in Brussels, according to the FPS.
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https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgiu...m-reaches-828/

 

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Coronavirus: Belgium surpasses 1,000 deaths
Thursday, 02 April 2020


Credit: Belga
1,011 people have died from the consequences of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) in Belgium, the FPS Public Health said during a daily press briefing.

On Wednesday, 183 new deaths were reported, bringing the total death toll in Belgium to 1,011 since the beginning of the pandemic....
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgiu...s-1000-deaths/

 

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https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgiu...e-stabilising/

On Friday, the FPS reported that 578 new patients with coronavirus had been admitted to the hospital the previous day. With 536 new hospitalisations reported on Monday, 485 on Tuesday, 560 on Wednesday, and 584 on Thursday, the number seems to be fluctuating “roughly between 500 and 600 new cases every day,” said professor Steven Van Gucht. “The stabilisation is encouraging,” he added.

“That is still high, but it is a good sign that it does not seem to be increasing. It is a possibility that we are reaching a peak or a plateau, but we will have to see that in the coming days,” Van Gucht said, adding that the figure of new hospitalisations is “the most important and reliable figure” to predict the situation, according to him.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-ne...r-recognition/

Coronavirus: Belgium reaches 16,770 confirmed cases

1,422 new people have tested positive for the new coronavirus (Covid-19), confirmed the FPS Public Health during a press conference on Friday.

865 of the newly-infected people live in Flanders, 374 live in Wallonia, and 167 live in Brussels. The FPS does not yet have further information on the place of residence of 16 other people. The total number of cases in Belgium, since the beginning of the pandemic, is 16,770.

The total number of people admitted to hospital because of the coronavirus at the moment is 5,552. “This is an increase of 578 patients in one day,” said professor Steven Van Gucht. Of those patients, 1,205 are in the intensive care unit.

However, 377 new people have also been discharged from the hospital in the last 24 hours.

132 new deaths have been reported, 60 of which occurred in Flanders, 51 in Wallonia, and 21 in Brussels. The total number of deaths in Belgium since the beginning of the pandemic is currently 1,143.

 

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https://www.ft.com/content/9c82ac13-...a-670ff8885a8f

The number of new hospital admissions of coronavirus patients in Belgium is stabilising, a sign that the lockdown is working, the Belgian government has said. “Even if the number of people still being admitted to hospital is going up, this number is no longer increasing steeply,” said Emmanuel Andr?, a scientist and spokesman for Belgium’s crisis centre. We are heading towards a situation of mastering the propagation of the epidemic, even if very substantial efforts are still needed. Belgium has been locked down for three weeks. The government has said that the restrictions will stay in place until at least April 19, with the possibility of extending them until May 3. A total of 5,678 people are in hospital with Covid-19, up from 5,552 in Friday’s data, official figures showed on Saturday. Just over 500 were hospitalised on Friday. A total of 3,247 patients have recovered and left hospital since March 15. The rate of new hospitalisations “is the best indirect indicator of the extent to which we are mastering this epidemic”, said Mr Andr?.

 

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https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-ne...40-new-deaths/

In the last 24 hours, 1,661 new cases of infection by the coronavirus (Covid-19) have been confirmed in Belgium, according to the government crisis centre’s daily press conference.

The new cases bring to 18,431 the total of confirmed cases in Belgium.
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Of the newly confirmed cases, 503 have been hospitalised, bringing the total to 7,773, of whom 1,245 are in intensive care, 40 in the last 24 hours. The ICU capacity in the country is filled to the tune of 56%. 985 people are on respirators, an increase of 69 in the past 24 hours.

The last 24 hours saw 140 new fatalities, bringing the total to 1,283 since the outbreak began. Of the latest deaths, 47 were in Flanders, 56 in Wallonia and 37 in Brussels.

The crisis centre stressed a point it has made before: the number of hospitalisations is a more reliable indicator of the progress of the epidemic than either the number of diagnoses or the number of deaths.

The number of diagnoses, Emmanuel Andr? pointed out, is reliant on the number of people tested. Since the government plans to increase the number of tests to at least 10,000 a day, more confirmed diagnoses can be expected, which is not to say that more people are becoming infected. Many of those diagnosed will be affected only slightly or not at all.

The number of deaths, meanwhile, is a more dramatic figure, but two points are important: the cases of a fatal infection are not spread equally across the population; and deaths typically occur later in the disease process, so that today’s numbers reflect confirmed cases of infection and hospitalisation reported two weeks ago at least, according to virologist Steven Van Gucht.

Therefore, while the number of deaths remains high – just one short of the highest death tool in a single day recorded on March 31 – that is not a sign that the measures taken to prevent the spread of the disease are not working.

 

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https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-ne...nfirmed-cases/

1,260 new patients have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Belgium to 19,691.

The data does not reflect the exact number of people affected by Covid-19, since it depends on the number of people being tested.

164 people have died in the last 24 hours from coronavirus, bringing a total of 1,447 deaths from coronavirus in Belgium.

 

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https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgiu...nfirmed-cases/

1,123 new people have tested positive for the new coronavirus (Covid-19), confirmed the FPS Public Health during a press conference on Monday.

686 of the newly-infected people live in Flanders, 262 live in Wallonia, and 137 live in Brussels. The FPS does not yet have further information on the place of residence of 38 other people. The total number of cases in Belgium, since the beginning of the pandemic, is 20,814.

420 new patients were admitted to the hospital in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people in the hospital because of the coronavirus at the moment to 5,840. “Of those patients, 1,257 are in the intensive care unit, which is a decrease of 4,” said professor Steven Van Gucht.

235 new people have also been discharged from the hospital in the last 24 hours.

185 new deaths have been reported, 60 of which occurred in Flanders, 80 in Wallonia, and 45 in Brussels. The total number of deaths in Belgium since the beginning of the pandemic is currently 1,632. “Of those deaths, 80% are people who died in the hospital and tested positive for the virus. The other 20% are suspected coronavirus related deaths outside the hospitals,” said Van Gucht.

 

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1380 new infections with Covid-19

07-04-2020

On Monday April 6, 1380 new cases were reported. Of these, 587 live in Flanders, 734 in Wallonia and 62 in Brussels. We have no information about the whereabouts of the other 19 cases. This brings the total number of confirmed infected persons to 22,194.
Furthermore, the situation is as follows:

• A total of 6,012 patients have been admitted to hospitals. That is an increase of 314 patients in one day.
• Intensive care includes 1260 patients in total, a slight increase from 3 patients in the past 24 hours.
• 4,157 patients have been discharged from the hospital and declared cured since March 15, an increase from 171 in the past 24 hours.
• A total of 2,035 deaths were reported, an increase from 162 in the past 24 hours.

https://www.info-coronavirus.be/nl/n...irus-covid-19/

 

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Source: http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2020-04/08/content_75908667.htm

Belgium reports more new cured COVID-19 cases than those of hospitalized
inhua, April 8, 2020

BRUSSELS, April 8 (Xinhua) -- COVID-19 containment efforts applied since March 18 in Belgium are beginning to bear fruit, as more people cured (524) than those of hospitalized (487) in the last 24 hours, the public health institute Sciensano said Wednesday.

This is the second time the daily number of people leaving hospital cured is more than that of those hospitalized since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic...

...To date, the Sciensano Institute has reported a total of 23,403 cases, including 2,240 deaths, in the country since the beginning of the pandemic...

 

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Source: http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2020-04/09/content_75913099.htm

Fall in number of new COVID-19 patients hospitalized continues in Belgium
Xinhua, April 9, 2020

BRUSSELS, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The decrease in the number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Belgium has been observed again in the past day, the public health institute Sciensano said Thursday.

This downward trend was confirmed with the results of the last 24 hours, when 459 new COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospital while 483 cured people discharged...

...To date, the Sciensano Institute has reported a total of 24,983 cases and 2,523 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic...

 

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Coronavirus death toll exceeds 3,000 in Belgium
Country also registers new record high of daily COVID-19 deaths
Agnes Szucs |
10.04.2020
Coronavirus death toll exceeds 3,000 in Belgium


BRUSSELS

Belgium reported 494 new deaths from coronavirus, bringing the tally to 3,019, the Federal Public Service of Health announced on Friday.

Over the past 24 hours, 325 more people lost their lives, marking the highest daily figure since the previous record of 283 cases reported a day before.
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Also, 1,684 new infections were diagnosed, which raises the sum of COVID-19 patients to 26,667 since the outbreak of the virus.
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https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/coro...elgium/1799939

 

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28018 cases; 3446 deaths total: https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-n...in-curbing-covid-19-transmission-highlighted/

 

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https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/b...ov-890835.html

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 12th April, 2020) A further 268 people have died in the past 24 hours after contracting COVID-19 in Belgium, raising the overall death toll in the country to 3,600, the national coronavirus response center said Sunday.

Health authorities in the European country also reported an additional 1,629 new cases of the disease in the preceding 24 hours, taking the total number of positive tests in the country to 24,647.

At present, 5,353 people are currently receiving treatment in the country's hospitals. A total of 6,463 people have been discharge

 

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https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-ne...nfirmed-cases/

In the last 24 hours, 942 new cases of infection by the coronavirus (Covid-19) have been confirmed in Belgium, according to the government crisis centre’s daily report.

The new cases bring to 30,589 the total of confirmed cases in Belgium. The latest increase is smaller than previous days, most likely as a result of reporting during the Easter weekend. However it brings the total over the psychological boundary of 30,000 cases.

The new numbers were divided among the three regions: 591 in Flanders, 235 in Wallonia and 113 in Brussels. No information was available as to the origin of three of the new cases.

Of the newly confirmed cases, 310 were hospitalised, bringing the total to 5,353, of whom 1,234 are in intensive care, an increase of two in the last 24 hours. At the same time, 239 patients were discharged from hospital, bringing the total to 6,707.

The last 24 hours saw 303 new fatalities, bringing the total to 3,903 since the outbreak began. Of the total number of fatalities, 53% (105) died in hospital, 43% (195) in a care home, none at home and 3% in another location.

The deaths in hospital are all confirmed cases, while the deaths in care homes include confirmed cases of coronavirus and presumed cases together.

 

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Source: https://www.info-coronavirus.be/nl/news/het-aantal-patienten-op-intensieve-zorgen-daalt/

The number of patients on intensive care is falling
04/14/2020

530 new cases were reported on Monday, April 13. Of these, 332 live in Flanders, 129 in Wallonia and 62 in Brussels. We have no information about the whereabouts of the other 7 cases. This brings the total number of confirmed infected persons to 31,119.

Furthermore, the situation is as follows:

A total of 5,536 patients have been admitted to hospitals. There were 242 new recordings in the past 24 hours.
There are a total of 1,223 patients in intensive care, which is a decrease of 11 patients in the past 24 hours.
6,868 patients have been discharged from the hospital and declared cured since March 15, an increase from 161 over the past 24 hours.
A total of 4,157 deaths were reported, up from 262 in the past 24 hours.
Of these 4,157 people, 52% died in the hospital, 46% in a residential care center, 0.4% at home, 0.5% in another place and 1.2% in an unknown place. The hospital deaths are all confirmed cases. The deaths in residential care centers are both confirmed and suspected cases.
A total of 2,149 people died in the hospital. That is an increase of 90 in the past 24 hours.
A total of 1919 people died in the residential care centers. Of these, 58 individuals were confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 1861 suspected cases. In the past 24 hours, 171 people died in residential care centers. Of these, 2 persons are confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 169 persons are suspected cases.

Presentation of the figures (press conference)

The number of confirmed infected persons in our country is still increasing. The number of new hospitalizations is stabilizing, but remains quite high. So keep going and follow the general measures, take good care of yourself and others.

Are you ill (fever, cough, breathing problems, ...)? Then follow the advice of the FPS Public Health and:

stay at home
contact your doctor directly by phone
follow the recommendations of the website https://www.info-coronavirus.be/nl/.

In this way, everyone helps to slow down the pandemic and protect the most vulnerable among us.

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