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The Netherlands goes into lockdown while corona figures are falling, just like in Belgium: how do the two countries relate to each other?

Also the number hospital admissions and the number of people on intensive care is declining in both the Netherlands and Belgium. In The Netherlands were last week 18.4 percent fewer covid patients hospitalized than the week before, in Belgium that was 22 percent less.

The number of new patients on intensive care takes in The Netherlands met 8.6 percent decreased compared to the previous week. In Belgium is there a decrease with 9 percent.

From positiviteitsratio, which is the percentage of positive tests of the total number of tests that have been taken, lies in Belgium on 15 percent and in The Netherlands on 23 percent. With us, the positivity ratio is still decreasing (-1.9 percent), while in the Netherlands it has increased from 21 to 23 percent.

It reproduction number is located in Belgium at 0,82, which means that each infected person infects less than 1 other person on average. So the virus spreads less quickly. In the Netherlands the reproduction number is 0,93, which is slightly higher, but still below 1.

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