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COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium

The COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Belgium on 4 February 2020.

COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium
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Map of Belgium and its provinces with the spread of COVID-19 as of 12 May 2020[1]
COVID-19 outbreak Belgium cases per capita map.svg
Confirmed cases per 10.000 inhabitants by province (as of 18 April 2020)

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DiseaseCOVID-19
LocationBelgium
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China[2]
Index caseBrussels
Arrival date3 February 2020
(4 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 5 days ago)
Confirmed cases54,288[nb 1][3]
Recovered14,111[nb 2][3]
Deaths
8,903[3] (including 3,721 suspected cases) [nb 3]
4,242 in hospitals (including 187 suspected cases)
Government website
www.info-coronavirus.be

Cases

The first case was when a Belgian national out of a group of nine Belgians came from Wuhan to Brussels was reported to have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.[4][5]

The disease spreading within Belgium was then confirmed early March, and was linked to holidaymakers returning from Northern Italy at the end of the half-term holidays.[6][7]

As of 14 May 2020, there had been 54,288 confirmed cases reported by the Belgian authorities, with a total of 8,924 deaths and 14,111 discharged patients. As of 14 May, 1,966 people in Belgian hospitals were suffering from COVID-19, including 407 in intensive care.[8] The actual number of victims could have been higher due to limited testing.[9]

COVID-19 Pandemic In Belgium Media

  • Concrete blocks in Mouscron, used to avoid all non-essential travel between France and Belgium (27 March 2020)

  • Wearing a mask is mandatory in the subway.

  • Ambulance workers in Brussels wearing PPE during an intervention.

  • Number of cases (blue) and number of deaths (red) on a logarithmic scale based on numbers reported by the ECDC

  • Cumulative number of deaths per million inhabitants for European Union countries, over time. The legend is sorted in descending order of these values. Countries without COVID-19 deaths are omitted. Logarithmic vertical axis. Data source: ECDC.

  • Semi-logarithmic graph of the number of confirmed cases, hospitalisations, intensive care cases and deaths in Belgium as of 2020-04-30

  • Graph of the number of daily increase of confirmed cases, hospitalisations, intensive care cases and deaths in Belgium as of 2020-04-30

  • Logistic growth modelfits for hospitalised COVID-19 cases in Belgium for data from 15 March 2020 until 14 May 2020. We can make out two phases separated by the yellow vertical line.

Notes

  1. ↑ The actual number of infections is estimated to be much higher than the number of cases confirmed by a laboratory test.
  2. ↑ The official reports do not refer to recovered people but to discharged patients.
  3. ↑ The total number of death cases in Belgium also includes suspected death cases, including those in foster and care homes where only 23% of the reported death cases have been confirmed as CoVID-19 positive.

    It is important to note that in many other countries, the reported deaths following a CoVID-19 infections are only accounted for when they occur in hospital. This is an important note for comparison purposes.

References

  1. ↑ "COVID-19 - Epidemiologische situatie" (PDF). Sciensano. 13 May 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 March 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  2. ↑ David Cyranoski (26 February 2020). "Mystery deepens over animal source of coronavirus". Nature. 579 (7797): 18–19. Bibcode:2020Natur.579...18C. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00548-w. PMID 32127703.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Coronavirus COVID-19". info-coronavirus.be (in français). Archived from the original on 30 March 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020. Alt URL
  4. ↑ "One repatriated Belgian has tested positive for the novel coronavirus". Federal Public Service (FPS) Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment. 4 February 2020. Archived from the original on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  5. ↑ "COVID-19 Belgian leaves hospital". VRT NWS. 16 February 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "6 new cases of Covid-19 by the end of the spring holidays". info-coronavirus.be. Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment. 2 March 2020. Archived from the original on 16 May 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  7. ↑ Lisa Bradshaw (2 March 2020). Seven confirmed coronavirus cases in Belgium following holiday week. http://www.flanderstoday.eu/seven-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-belgium-following-holiday-week. Retrieved 14 May 2020. 
  8. ↑ "COVID-19 –BULLETIN EPIDEMIOLOGIQUE DU 14 MAY 2020" (PDF). epidemio.wiv-isp.be. 14 May 2020.
  9. ↑ Qiu, Jane (20 March 2020). "Covert coronavirus infections could be seeding new outbreaks". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00822-x. PMID 32203376. S2CID 214629145. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
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