With more than 3,000 people with Covid-19 in Belgian hospitals, an average of 33 deaths per day and hospitals filling up, it is high time to take new measures, according to epidemiologist Pierre Van Damme. A lockdown does not rule out Van Damme either. He tells HLN that on Thursday morning.
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“If we look abroad, we see that certain countries are going into lockdown and the situation there is even less worrying than with us. We have to be realistic and put that option on the table together with other measures, “Van Damme responded to the question of whether there should be a new lockdown. Microbiologist Emmanuel André has previously argued for a lockdown. us still remains to bring the curve down.
Virologist Marc Van Ranst also argues for a lockdown on Twitter on Thursday morning. According to him, a short strict lockdown is needed to avoid a longer semi-lockdown “which will exhaust people and have both a greater health cost and a greater socio-economic cost.”
