March 24, 2020 Update On The Corona Crisis From A Locked Down Ghent

The streets are quieter than they have been in generations for a long time… What seemed unthinkable just a week ago is rapidly becoming the new normal.Yesterday, 342 new people have tested positive for the Covid-19 bringing the total number of cases in Belgium, since the beginning of the pandemic to 3,743. Since only people with severe symptoms and health care workers are being tested this number is undoubtfully an underestimation. Unfortunately, 13 new people have died in the last 24 hours. This means that, since the beginning of the pandemic, 88 patients have died from the consequences of the virus in Belgium. The good news is that we are seeing a slight decrease in confirmed new cases and the number of deaths. That said, government virologists said that it’s very unlikely that Belgium will lift the lockdown on 5 April – Ghent, Belgium