What figures are there about infections in the catering industry?

Unfortunately, there are no good figures about the role of the catering industry in the epidemic. What do we know?

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The telephone contact trackers of the Flemish agency Care and Health ask who tests positive, where they are suspected of becoming infected. More than one in three has no idea. Of all probable places ‘catering’ makes up 5.7 percent of the total. In the local source research in the Kortrijk region (Well-being 13), the café / restaurant category is mentioned as a possible source of contamination in 8.8 percent of the cases.

What activities or events did people still participate in when they were already contagious (but may not have known themselves)? Those who an answer responding to the question, an average of 1.3 activities reported in the last week. About 40 percent of them have been to a café or restaurant during the contagious period. That is not to say that they also infected people there. There were no inquiries about other trips, such as work, the shop or family visits

In Brussels, Prime Minister gave Rudi Vervoort (PS) indicates that 55 percent of those who became infected have previously been to a café or restaurant. That also does not mean that the virus was circulating there.

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