12 January 2021: Are the returning holidaymakers trigging a corona surge in Belgium?

12 January 2021: The latest figures show for the fourth day in a row a rise in the 7-day rolling average for people testing positive for coronavirus. During the week from 2 to 8 January an average of 2,020 people tested positive for the virus each day. This is a rise of 27% of the previous week. Biostatisticians find it hard to finger point the cause of the sharp increase of infections. Is it the impact of the returning travelers or is because more tests were carried out? I guess the coming days will tell. The biggest concern of our virologists is that a mutation like the one we’ve seen in the UK will enter the country on the back of a returning holiday maker. The good news is that the first shipment of the Moderna vaccine arrived in our country yesterday and that the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca most likely will get European conditional market authorization next week. On display today is another seascape of last Saturday’s stroll on the beach of De Haan – De Haan, Belgium.