GPs worried about corona numbers: “We’re getting clear …

For the first time since the second wave, the Domus Medica GP association is receiving clear signals from GPs that corona numbers are evolving in the wrong direction. Chairman Roel Van Giel said this to Belga on Wednesday.

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The number of corona infections and hospital admissions continues to increase. Wednesday morning it concerned 2,958 infections on a weekly basis (+ 26 percent). Hospital admissions also continue to increase, with an average of 168 admissions per day (+12 percent). Currently, 2,086 corona patients are being cared for in the hospital. 523 of them are in intensive care units.

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Domus Medica also notices in the field that the pressure is increasing. “For the first time since the second wave, we are getting really clear signals,” says Van Giel. This includes more people who show symptoms, more people who get tested and more people who test positive. “Of course that worries us, because experience tells us that we also noticed the signals a little earlier with the previous waves.”

According to Van Giel, however, it is still too early to draw any conclusions and it remains to be seen whether it is a temporary revival or whether the increase will continue in the coming days.

For the time being, the general practitioners’ association received mainly worrying signals from the Antwerp region, as did the Kempen and the regions around Leuven and Flemish Brabant. Van Giel was not yet able to comment on East and West Flanders and Limburg.

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