Over the same period, 11.3 people died per day on average while they were carrying the virus (-32%), bringing the death toll to 31,613 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%. Between May 6 and May 12, there were an average of 112.3 hospital admissions per day due to covid, down 17% from the previous reporting period. A total of 1,683 coronavirus-positive people are currently hospitalized, including 105 patients treated in intensive care. The reproduction rate of the virus is 0.87. 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 534 over 14 days.
