The health system is also under severe pressure in France. To avoid hospitals having to refuse patients, French President Emmanuel Macron opts for a second lockdown for his country. He announced this in a television message. – After a meeting with the Security Council, Macron decided on Wednesday that France will go into lockdown again … Read more
For the second night in a row, there is fierce protests in Italy. In recent days, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the tightened corona measures. The protest that started in Naples, where mainly restaurant owners expressed their dissatisfaction, blew over to the capital Rome. There, about 250 protesters took to … Read more
The board of the Brussels-Capital Region has decided to extend the curfew. Instead of between midnight and 5 am, it will apply from 10 pm to 6 am, it was decided at a meeting of the provincial crisis cell. In addition, there will also be a generalization of the mouth mask obligation throughout the Brussels … Read more
Hospitals must move to phase 2A. By Nov. 2, all hospitals must reserve 60 percent of their intensive care beds for covid patients. All planned and postponable interventions must be canceled, but necessary interventions will continue. – Last Friday, all hospitals received a letter from the government asking them to scale up to phase 1B … Read more
Only people who have symptoms that can be directly linked to the new coronavirus will still be tested. The laboratories are overloaded. – Anyone who has close contact who is infected with the virus or who returns from a red zone will no longer automatically have to have a covid test taken. Only if you … Read more
A general practitioner in Kruisem, East Flanders, may have infected more than a hundred patients with the corona virus by not wearing a mouth mask during consultations. The municipality is now headlongly organizing tests for affected patients. – Earlier it was announced that Kruisem would set up an additional test center, after the number of … Read more
Higher education is switching to code orange. In the course of the weekend, it will be checked with the education sector when this new situation can start. – That is what Flemish Education Minister Ben Weyts says in the aftermath of the consultation committee. In concrete terms, this means an occupancy of one in five … Read more
The Flemish residential care centers received an e-mail today that the test capacity for Friday is exhausted. The Agency for Care and Health sent that email. But Minister Wouter Beke (CD&V) tweeted that extra tests will be carried out after all. “We’ve had additional tests.” – “The testing capacity on the federal test platform will … Read more
Several European countries have reported record numbers of new corona infections. – In The Netherlands, with a population of 17.46 million, 6,504 new corona cases were reported between Friday and Saturday morning, another day record. The day before, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) had received 5,979 reports of positive tests. … Read more
State Secretary Mathieu Michel (MR) took a positive corona test on Thursday. On Saturday he had a high-risk contact with someone who turned out to be infected with the virus afterwards. Because Michel himself had no direct risk contact with government members in the past week, the other ministers should not be quarantined. – Michel … Read more