9 November 2020: The spread of the virus continues to slow in Belgium and Trump refuses to accept the election result

9 November 2020: Update on The Corona Pandemic – As the number of new Covid-19 patients admitted to hospital continues to decrease slowly, the pressure on intensive care units continues to climb, and the number of deaths is still rising sharply. The reproduction rate now stands at 0.94, down from 0.99 yesterday. With an incidence rate of 1,333 coronavirus cases Belgium is no longer the worst European country but we are still coloring dark red on the map of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). As a reference, Finland with 53 coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants, is at the very bottom of the list. Meanwhile, in the US some republicans and Trump aids are coming to grips with the reality of a loss whilst others are encouraging him to battle the election result until the bitter end. No matter how hard Joe Biden is trying to reunite the country I’m afraid it’s going to be a shitshow until Trump is out of the office. The mural I found at the old cement factory reflects well the two faces the US will be confronted with in the months to come – Dok Noord, Ghent, Belgium.