COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Belgium |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China[2] |
Index case | Brussels |
Arrival date | 3 February 2020 (4 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 2 days ago) |
Confirmed cases | 54,288[nb 1][3] |
Recovered | 14,111[nb 2][3] |
Deaths | 8,903[3] (including 3,721 suspected cases) [nb 3] 4,242 in hospitals (including 187 suspected cases) |
Government website | |
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The COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Belgium on 4 February 2020.
The first case was when a Belgian national out of a group of nine Belgians came from Wuhan to Brussels was reported to have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.[4][5]
The disease spreading within Belgium was then confirmed early March, and was linked to holidaymakers returning from Northern Italy at the end of the half-term holidays.[6][7]
As of 14 May 2020, there had been 54,288 confirmed cases reported by the Belgian authorities, with a total of 8,924 deaths and 14,111 discharged patients. As of 14 May, 1,966 people in Belgian hospitals were suffering from COVID-19, including 407 in intensive care.[8] The actual number of victims could have been higher due to limited testing.[9]