A new Codeco scheduled for April 22: what to expect?

Initially, a meeting devoted to the Covid-19 pandemic It’s was scheduled for March 25. This was therefore postponed until following the Easter holidays, so as to better put the health situation and the evolution of the figures into perspective.

After increasing for nearly a month, contaminations seem to have reached their peak. A trend that is not (yet) observed in hospitals, where the rise in admissions continues (+4%), even if it seems to be slowing down . “The rise in admissions observed in Flanders last week has calmed down”, explains, to Soir, Marcel Vander Auwera, president of the “Hospital and Surge capacity” committee, “but it is starting to start in Wallonia on the side of Namur and the Luxembourg, where we sometimes observe increases of 40 to 50% in one week”.

If the situation deteriorates, you have to be consistent

So what should we expect for this next Codeco? Nothing filters for the moment. Only Frank Vandenbroucke explained, a few days ago in an interview for De Morgen: “We must not forget that there is always this virus which circulates. In some hospitals, it becomes complicated. This is not a reason to go back to code orange tomorrow, but we must be careful. And if the situation deteriorates sharply, code orange would come back on the table. -he.

For her part, Erika Vlieghe, the president of GEMS recommends a reinforcement of the measures. “If the situation deteriorates, you have to be consistent,” she explained in the columns of Morgen. It therefore recommends a return to the orange code, with all the measures that would be linked to it (return of the CST, return to wearing a mask in certain public places, etc.).