Between January 1 and January 7, 20,264 new Covid-19 contaminations were detected on average per day, an increase of 85% compared to the previous week. More than a quarter of the tests are now positive. Almost 78,800 tests were carried out daily in Belgium for an average positivity rate of 26.2%. The Brussels Region has the highest score (30.3% of positive tests).
A Cocom press conference on the epidemiological situation in the capital took place this Tuesday morning. Inge Neven, COCOM’s Covid manager, took stock of the new contaminations.
“We can see that Omicron is really among us. Hospitalizations are increasing: we have gone from more or less 350 people admitted last week to 450 this week, but the occupancy of intensive care beds is down slightly, observes Inge Neven According to the feedback received once more this morning from hospitals, patients treated in intensive care are still mainly people infected with the Delta variant. Intensive care patients are now half unvaccinated and half vaccinated “.
“People infected with the Omicron variant who arrive at the hospital currently only need ‘normal’ care and there are no patients with Omicron in intensive care yet,” she added. . “It is rather good news but we must be careful, because we do not yet know what it will give in the days and weeks to come,” she said.