14 May 2020 Update from A Locked Down Ghent

Animal parks, museums, hairdressers, libraries, open-air markets, sports clubs etc will re-open as of Monday. We finally can say goodbye to our corona hairstyle. Good news? Although the corona statistics continue to improve yesterday’s numbers still listed 70 new patients that were hospitalized, and 82 new corona deaths were reported. Are we not opening the flood gates for a new wave of infections? We started the phased deconfinement less than twee weeks. That is less than the incubation time of the virus… Finding a balanced approach between dealing with the economical and social fallout of the lockdown measures and containing the virus remains a huge challenge – De Krook, Ghent, Belgium