Prime Minister Alexander De Croo expressed cautiously positive in the House on Thursday afternoon about the course of the corona epidemic in our country, although he also made it seem that it is still too early to think about more flexible rules. “The turn has started. But the pressure on intensive care is still very high. ”
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The corona figures have been slowly moving in the right direction in our country for several days. Prime Minister De Croo also acknowledges this, who received questions about the epidemic in parliament on Thursday afternoon. “The turn has started. I think that is clear. We see this at the level of incidences, and also in the number of new hospitalizations, ”he said.
But De Croo wasware of too much optimism. “We see that the high pressure on intensive care is still there. And that means that the working conditions remain particularly harsh for everyone who works there (..). We are not yet in a situation where we can change the gun from one shoulder. ”
Moreover, many children will go to school again from Monday, the prime minister pointed out. “A first big test”, he called it. “We will monitor the situation in education very closely.” The fact that winter is gradually turning into winter doesn’t help either. “We are in a period where people go outside less. Everything that happens indoors involves more risk than what you do outside. “
On Friday at 2 pm, another Consultation Committee will be held, virtually this time, to evaluate the epidemiological situation. The meeting serves to “provide a detailed understanding of where we are making progress, where the situation is still particularly serious and whether the measures taken have resulted in the turn being taken,” said De Croo.
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