An average of 83 new infections with covid-19 were diagnosed per day in the past week. That’s an 8 percent drop.
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That reports Sciensano Monday.
By “weekly average”, Sciensano means the average number of newly confirmed cases over a seven-day period. By taking the average, the normal fluctuations (such as the weekend effect, when testing less) don’t cloud the trend.
Virologist Steven Van Gucht of Sciensano said yesterday that we ‘probably’ have reached the bottom of the number of new infections.
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