Belgium currently has a cumulative incidence of 1,094 points.
The Prime Minister of Belgium, Alexander De Croo, opened this Monday to “consider” the possibility of establishing compulsory vaccination against covid-19 in the country, although he also pointed out that he is “more in favor of convincing than imposing.”
In an interview with the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, De Croo warned that the rise in infections that the omicron variant will cause “will not be the last wave” and, in this sense, he assured that the objective to stop the pandemic is to “vaccinate everyone “.
“If the compulsory vaccination route can contribute, I am willing to ask it,” said the president, in a country where 76% of the population is already immunized with the full schedule and up to 33% have also received the booster dose. , although there are important regional differences, with Brussels (59%) very far from Wallonia (72%) or Flanders (81%).
However, De Croo admitted that, apart from considering the mandatory nature of the vaccine, there are also other health measures that should be put on the table, so that citizens “learn to live with the virus,” said the leader.
“Our hospitals must be in better conditions to face the waves. Are the 2,000 beds we have in intensive care enough? Maybe not,” he acknowledged.
In addition, the Belgian prime minister also insisted on the need to reinforce what he described as “continuous prevention”, especially the ventilation of closed spaces, and promised to improve the detection centers of contagions, in order, as he said, ” relieve general practitioners. “
Belgium currently registers a cumulative incidence of 1,094 points and a weekly fall in infections of 36%, as well as 150 daily hospital admissions due to covid and 35 deaths, with respective weekly decreases of 32 and 19%. (I)
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