30 March 2021: Spring is in the air but the pandemic is far from over…

30 March 2021: During the week from 20 to 26 March an average of 4,750 people tested positive forSARCoV-2, a rise of 16% on the figures for the previous week. This is a slowdown in the rate of increase. However, the question now is whether this will persist and when this will turn round into a fall in the number of people testing positive for the virus. There are currently 2,691 patients with COVID-19 in Belgian hospitals. Of these more than 711 are in intensive care. Net-net, we’ve got a long way to go… During one of my daily corona walks I came across this interesting mural of Kitsune. Kitsune Jolene (Jolien De Waele) is a street artist, based in Ghent. You can find her work from Belgium all the way to Portugal and Dubai. She is usually painting portraits of women, animals, fauna and flora sometimes infused with subtle nods to various cultures and myths – Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 115, Ghent, Belgium.