Hard-hit Belgium relaxes coronavirus rules as deaths remain flat for 3 months

Just the News ^ | September 23, 2020 | Daniel Payne

[CheshireTheCat]

Belgium, which remains among the top three hardest-hit countries in the world amid the COVID-19 pandemic, will relax numerous coronavirus restrictions there and adjust the metrics by which the country determines the virus's severity on the local and national levels, the country's prime minister announced on Wednesday.

P.M. Sophie Wilmes said at a Wednesday press conference that the country is developing an "epidemic barometer" to assess COVID-19's prevalence in the country, one that will focus mostly on hospitalizations rather than confirmed cases or other pandemic markers.

Starting next month, citizens will no longer be required to wear face masks every time they head outdoors. Facial coverings will only be mandated in crowded public places and in venues such as movie theaters. "It is useless to make masks compulsory anytime, anywhere," Wilmes said on Wednesday...

[CheshireTheCat]

What a novel concept--worrying about how many alleged 'rona virus patients end up in the hospital versus how many test positive based on dubious tests. If only others had thought of that.

[LouieFisk]

Looks like they are averaging 3 or less deaths daily for about a couple of months. Might be like Sweden, where the epidemic has ended for all practical purposes.

The one thing they have to watch out for is travelers bringing it in again, esepcially if it’s mutated for the worse.

[FreeReign]

Interesting. Belgium’s number of new daily cases is spiking right now.

[FreeReign]

The one thing they have to watch out for is travelers bringing it in again, esepcially if it’s mutated for the worse.

Nevermind travelers bringing it in. Belgium currently has 1,300 new cases a day all on its own.

[LouieFisk]

“Belgium currently has 1,300 new cases a day all on its own.”
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Without the deaths that’s what could be called a case-demic.