The municipality of Sint-Truiden was wrongly described, this Sunday, May 24, as “a new source of contamination” for the coronavirus. It is the covid-19 inter-federal spokesperson, Yves Van Laethem, who corrected the information during the press briefing on Monday. “VSthis impression of an increase in a few days in the number of cases compared to the rest of the region and the country, is linked to the fact that the results of PCR tests (for virus detection) and serology tests (for antibody detection) ) were accidentally included in the same tables “, explained the infectious disease specialist.
If it is not really “nothing happened“in the Limburg commune, the bourgmestre did not fail to display his dissatisfaction with those who had pointed the finger at his city. Among these, the virologist of the KULeuven, Marc Van Ranst, did not not escaped the wrath of Veerle Heeren (CD&V). “This is a terrible statement from Mr. Van Ranst that has caused enormous damage to our city“, she lamented during the virtual municipal council on Monday, May 25.
An attack against him that the expert member of the GEES did not accept, believing that the fault could not be attributed to him. “This is a data error from Sciensano which published bad figures, justified the virologist on Twitter. I noticed it and asked that the figures be checked.“
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