12 April 2021: Positive trend but way too early to get the party dress out…

12 April 2021: Between 2 and 8 April 3,558 new cases were reported each day on average, 20 percent less than the week before that. Also, the pressure on Belgian hospitals was slightly down yesterday, with more patients being discharged than being admitted to hospital. The total number of corona patients in Belgian hospitals stands now at 3,027, 905 of them are receiving critical care. The reproduction figure meanwhile remains just below 1, standing at 0.97. This means that the epidemic is shrinking, slowly but surely, for the time being. Speaking on national television yesterday the federal health minister Frank Vandenbroucke had no comment on the demand made today for the hospitality industry to be given an assurance that they can reopen on May 1. He did however say that the ban on cross-border travel should be lifted on 18 April as expected. Happy about the promising outlook I continue my search for murals in Ghent and surroundings. Aziëstraat, Ghent, Belgium.