Between March 10 and March 16, there were an average of 160.6 covid-related hospital admissions per day, up 13% from the previous reporting period, according to Institute figures. public health Sciensano updated Thursday morning. A total of 2,252 people positive for the coronavirus are currently hospitalized, including 178 patients treated in intensive care (-7%). Some 8,145 new Sars-CoV-2 contaminations were detected on average per day, between March 7 and 13, up 28% compared to the previous week. Nearly 34,800 tests on average were also carried out daily, for a positivity rate of 25.4%.
The provinces of Limburg and Antwerp show the highest number of positive tests with 33 and 32.4% respectively. Conversely, Hainaut is the least impacted Belgian province with a positivity rate of 15%, just ahead of the Brussels Region with 15.2%. Overall, the number of infections is higher in Flanders where all the provinces are above 24%, while in Wallonia and Brussels, only the Luxembourg region is above this threshold (24.4% ).
Also from March 7 to 13, an average of 20 people died per day while carrying the virus, bringing the death toll to 30,492 since the start of the pandemic in Belgium.
The reproduction rate of the virus is 1.09. When it is greater than 1, this indicator means that the epidemic tends to accelerate. The incidence, which provides the number of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants, reached 881 over 14 days.
In total, in Belgium, 89% of the adult population is fully vaccinated (2 injections) against Covid and 75% has received a third booster dose.