“A curfew is an efficient way to reduce corona infections in our country.” Professor of General Practice Medicine Dirk Devroey (VUB) said this on Wednesday evening in the One program ‘The appointment’. “I’m not saying it’s only due to curfew, but in Brussels the figures are the best at the moment. A curfew that starts at 10 pm ensures that we reduce our number of contacts. ”
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The corona figures in our country are still falling, but only very slightly for a few days. “A drop of seven percent in one week means that you only drop one percent every day,” says Devroey. “We are still on more than 2,000 cases a day and we want to get to 800 (before there may be relaxed, ed.). That is, if 20 go off every day, you will have to stay in lockdown for another three to four months. ”
Third wave
As long as we do not fall below the threshold of 800 new infections per day, the pressure on the hospitals will not decrease sufficiently and there is a chance that local outbreaks will arise again. “As we now see in the provinces of West Flanders and Luxembourg, local sparks that can ignite the entire powder keg again. If we get stuck on this plateau, a third wave is definitely not out of the question. In fact, we already know that – everyone will be vaccinated – we will have a third wave. We just hope it won’t be as high as the second. But if it comes now, before there is capacity in the hospitals, then we will go back to complete chaos in our medical care, operations will have to be postponed again. ”
While the major problem areas were still in Brussels and Wallonia at the start of the second wave, the figures are now rising in the Flemish provinces and things are going relatively well in Brussels. “I’m not saying it’s only due to curfew, but in Brussels the figures are the best at the moment. A curfew that starts at 10 p.m. reduces our number of contacts. I think that is an efficient measure that affects few people. ”
A possible perimeter, as proposed by biostatistician Geert Molenberghs, is difficult to maintain, according to DeVroey. “I think curfew is easier to enforce. Just after 10 pm: everyone inside. ”
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