10 April 2021: Le Vent Souffle Où Il Veut

10 April 2021: The number of new infections continues to drop. During the week from 31 March to 6April an average of 3,593 people tested positive for SARCoV-2. The figure is down 23% on the week. The total number of corona patients in Belgian hospitals stands at 3,128. 911 of them are receiving intensive care. As Belgium’s coronavirus infection figures are slowly decreasing, experts are considering “two major scenarios” that could happen after the four-week Easter pause:  (1) the figures will have either dropped enough for relaxations from late April or early May, or (2) Belgium will be stuck on a plateau of more than 200 hospital admissions per day which would be a lot higher than after the second wave. Right now, it is still guessing where the wind will be coming from. On display today is the work of French artist Daniel Buren: Le Vent Souffle Où Il Veut. The One hundred flagpoles with the same number of weathervanes are positioned along the harbor channel in Nieuwpoort – Nieuwpoort, Belgium.