Between April 30 and May 6, 4,413 new Sars-CoV-2 contaminations were detected on average per day, down 8% from the previous week, according to figures from the Sciensano Public Health Institute. updated Tuesday morning. Over the same period, 14.6 people died per day on average while they were carrying the virus (-7%), bringing the death toll to 31,580 since the start of the pandemic in Belgium.
Nearly 19,500 tests on average were also carried out daily, for a positivity rate of 24.7%.
Between May 3 and May 9, there were an average of 125.4 hospital admissions per day due to covid, down 10% from the previous reporting period. A total of 1,894 coronavirus-positive people are currently hospitalized, including 126 patients treated in intensive care.
The reproduction rate of the virus is 0.92. When it is less than 1, this indicator means that the epidemic tends to slow down. The incidence, which provides the number of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants, reached 559 over 14 days.
