“It is one minute to midnight. I was expecting firmer measures,” said Pierre Van Damme, epidemiologist at the University of Antwerp, on the VTM Nieuws plateau, after the press conference given by the Prime Minister. “Sophie Wilmès has opted for the soft method, but we have little time, and we will still have to run a marathon for a year and a half”.
Pierre Van Damme is skeptical of the government’s “soft method”. “They say we won a first battle, thanks to our approach to dealing with the first wave. But the war is not over yet,” he continued. “I am afraid that we will end up in a yoyo management, where we will have to alternate easing and hardening. This is not good. We have to find a balance.”
Van Ranst: “The return to a bubble of 10 would have been a strong signal”
For Marc Van Ranst too, the measures are not sufficient. “The rule of the fifteen-person bubble is respected by many, but unfortunately not by everyone”, for his part said Marc Van Ranst on the VRT. “Despite Celeval’s recommendations (editor’s note: Evaluation Unit), we chose to keep the bubble of 15 people and not reduce it to 10, although that would have been a strong signal”.
For the KUL virologist, even if the virus is spreading mainly in certain social circles, “it is only a matter of one to two weeks before the virus spreads to the whole of society. . It’s reality.”
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