1 May 2021: A long-awaited and fall in the figures has commenced.

1 May 2021: The Corona figures are heading in the right direction. They show falls in the number of people testing positive for and being hospitalised with COVID-19. On average during the last seven-day observation period, the week to 27 April, 3,212 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed each day.  The figure is down 10% on the week. 2,779 patients are currently in hospital with Covid, 862 of them are in intensive care. The positivity rate and the reproduction rate are respectively 8.6 and 0.89. On Wednesday 28 April 31.1% of the adult population had received their first shot of coronavirus vaccine. The long-awaited fall in the figures has commenced. The combination of the vaccination campaign and the corona restrictions has enabled us to leave the plateau level where we were at. We’re not yet out of the woods but there is light at the end of the tunnel. At the occasion of 1 May I’m posting a picture of Edward Anseele, the leader of the socialist labor movement in Belgium at the end of the 19the/beginning of the 20th century – Woodrow Wilsonplein, Ghent, Belgium.