15 April 2020 Update from A Locked Down Ghent

"The figures are evolving in a positive way, the virus is getting tired,” said Van Gucht, one of Belgium’s lead virologists. Mainly the declining figures of people newly admitted to the hospital makes us all cautiously hopeful. Yesterday it was announced that 224 new patients were admitted to the hospital in the last 24 hours bringing the total number of people in hospital to 5,536. Of the patients in the hospital, 1,223 are in the intensive care unit, which is a decrease of 11 patients.  Unfortunately, also 262 new deaths have been reported, of which 171 occurred in residential care centres, meaning they were people suspected of being infected. The total number of deaths in Belgium since the beginning of the pandemic is currently 4,157. Hoping that the worst is over I continue my corona walks snapping my way across a locked down Ghent, capturing life as it unfolds before my eyes – Graslei, Ghent, Belgium