'Really brutal' - Belgium struggles with second wave

At an intensive care unit in Liège, Dr Laurent Jadot spells out the reality for his team dealing with Covid-19 patients.So stretched are nursing staff that even those who have contracted the virus are being asked to keep coming to work if they are asymptomatic or if they have only mild symptoms."But it’s difficult now, because if we do [keep them home] we won't have enough nurses and medical staff to do the job. So, we have to make difficult decisions.

The number of patients in intensive care units is doubling every eight days, with nearly 5,000 people in hospital. "If we have to work in bad conditions with one nurse to five or six patients we won’t be able to treat them the same way as in the first wave. "We’re in the heart of Europe," says Steven Van Gucht, a virologist at the Belgian Institute for Health and the head of the government’s Covid-19 policy.

"These are hundreds of thousands of people … This caused a rise in cases which went down after a week or two weeks. Then at the beginning of September schools reopened.""In Belgium typically this coincides with a very strong mobility of students," Mr Van Gucht told RTÉ News. "In Belgium students go to the city to university from Monday to Friday and then return home for the weekend.

Lord Sumption: 'Fear has always been the most potent instrument of the authoritarian state. Fear promotes intolerant conformism and provokes abuse at anyone who steps out of Government’s line. These are the authentic ingredients of a totalitarian society.“

The biggest funder of the WHO is Gates Foundation.. and big pharma

Ireland is on a downward curve,oh and we have no flu this year 🤣🤣

Bullsh*t..🇮🇪🦊

It needs to accelerate up my ass

Nah

The WHO needs a serious re think

The WHO only have lockdowns the Wuhan strategy to advise European countries to do....It did work very well in Wuhan...However Europe is different....

Cases are getting bigger !

Glad Ireland is leading the way. Great to see level 5 working.

tconnellyRTE I hope Tony was wearing a mask and stays at home when he gets back!

tconnellyRTE Deaths lower in 2nd wave....Belgium with strict lockdown had bad 1st wave....

tconnellyRTE Extra extra super duper really brutal

tconnellyRTE Come and join us !

CLOSE THE SCHOOLS!

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