25 March, 2020 Update On The Corona Crisis From A Locked Down Ghent

Both the number of new cases, new deaths and the number of patients admitted to intensive care have risen again. 34 new deaths linked to the new coronavirus (Covid-19) have been recorded yesterday, bringing the number of people who have died in Belgium since the beginning of the crisis to 122. Yesterday’s silver lining was that the number of new hospitalisations is down for the second consecutive day. Yesterday, there was a lot of talk about how to relaunch an economy that has been crippled by Covid-19. The government is injecting massive amounts of public funds to support workers and businesses, however, there is a general consensus that you can’t call off the best weapon we have, which is social isolation, even out of economic desperation, unless you’re willing to be responsible for a mountain of deaths – Ghent, Belgium.