We take stock of the new coronavirus figures communicated this Tuesday, March 29, 2022 for Belgium.
Sars-Cov-2 infections, hospitalizations and deaths are all on the rise compared to the previous seven-day reference period, according to statistics from the Sciensano Public Health Institute, published this Tuesday. Only the number of patients treated in intensive care is decreasing.
Between March 19 and 25, 11,052 contaminations with coronavirus were diagnosed on average per day, an increase of 11% compared to the previous week. At the same time, some 37,900 tests were carried out on average on a daily basis, with almost a third (31.1%) of positive tests (+2.7%)
This figure for new contaminations was 10,561 last Saturday, against 9,055 the previous Saturday.
As a reminder, we fell below 10,000 a month ago, on February 22, during the decline of the 5th wave which had reached the figure of 52,294 during the peak in the report on Saturday January 29.
During the same period, 21 people (+12%) are deceased on average per day from the consequences of the virus.
Between March 22 and 28, hospitalizations increased by 20%, reaching an average of 206 new daily admissions. This figure was 192 last Saturday.
This figure, which had climbed to 330 on Wednesday January 26 when the peak of the 4th wave (322 at the beginning of December) had been exceeded, had fallen to 131 on Saturday March 5 before rising since then: 170 last Tuesday, 176 on Wednesday last, 183 last Thursday, 189 last Friday and finally 192 this Saturday.
On Monday, 2,885 people who tested positive for Covid-19 (+17%) were in hospital, 170 of whom were being treated in intensive care (-5%).
the reproduction rate, which measures the degree of contagiousness of the virus, is also up, to 1.11. When this indicator is greater than 1, it means that the epidemic tends to accelerate.
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