24 October 2020: More than 1 in 100 Belgians is infectious!

24 October 2020: Update on The Corona Pandemic – More than 10,000 people are testing positive for SARS-CoV-2. The number of infections is doubling every 9 days which means that during the coming week we will probably be heading towards 20,000.  The number of hospital admissions of patients with COVID-19 has reached almost 500 per day, meaning that the equivalent of the capacity of one small hospital per day is now being taken up by new COVID-19 patients. The additional measures to curb the spread of the virus for sports, culture, youth movements and higher education that were announced yesterday are seen by many virologists as not sufficient and they are in favour of stricter measures in certain areas, especially concerning teleworking and higher education. Although the effects of last week’s measures are not yet visible in the figures, I couldn’t agree more that stricter rules are definitely necessary. If, in a few days, it turns out that the previous measures did not work, we will have lost another few precious days. Whilst the coronavirus is hitting us very hard, I continue my search for beauty in ugly and/or mundane scenery – Visserijvaart, Ghent, Belgium.