From February 26 to March 4, nearly 131 hospital admissions on average were recorded each day due to coronavirus, down 24% from the previous reporting period, according to data from the Institute of Health. public Sciensano published on Saturday. In total, 2,056 hospitalized people are positive for Covid-19 (-18% in one week), including 217 treated in intensive care (-13%). Between February 23 and March 1, 5,854 new Sars-CoV-2 contaminations were detected on average per day, a decrease of 24% compared to the previous week. The positivity rate is 18.9%.
During the same period, just over 20 people (20.4) died per day on average from the virus (-37%), bringing the death toll to 30,259 since the start of the pandemic in Belgium.
The reproduction rate of the virus is 0.86. When it is less than 1, this indicator means that the epidemic tends to slow down