Over the past three days, 130 deaths in Flemish residential care centers have been attributed to Covid-19, the highest number in this second wave. This is evident from figures from the Agency for Care and Health.
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In residential care centers, there were also 4,307 confirmed and 791 suspected corona infections yesterday. That is the highest number since the start of the pandemic. “The increase has not yet stopped in residential care centers, but infections among staff seem to be stabilizing,” says spokesman Joris Moonens.
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Testing
Care and Health emphasizes that the situation is now much better under control than in the spring. At the time, much less testing was done, which meant that the possible number of infections was possibly a lot higher. “The figures do mean that the increase is still continuing in residential care centers, while the number of infections seems to be decreasing in general,” Moonens said.
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Yesterday, 130 deaths were also attributed to Covid-19 (127 confirmed and 3 suspected). That’s the highest number since April 13, when there were 156 suspected deaths.
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Nuance
Although the current figure must be nuanced according to Care and Health, because since June no more surveys take place at the weekend and the data is only communicated on Monday, so that the figure on Monday is the sum of three days.
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Bright spot: the contamination figures of the staff seem to be stabilizing. Yesterday, 1,965 employees were infected (1,602 confirmed, 363 suspected), a similar number to last week. “This could be the start of the turnaround, because the staff is still the first source to introduce the virus. We hope that we can see a decrease here too soon,” Moonens concludes.
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