This is an advertisement which Belgium would gladly have done without. The country crossed the barrier of 3,000 deaths from coronavirus on Friday. Sunday, the balance sheet climbed to 3600 dead. The Kingdom, which however has only 11.5 million inhabitants, is in the world's top 10 of the States most affected by the pandemic. With 315 deaths per million inhabitants, it is the third most affected in the EU after Spain (363 deaths per million inhabitants) and Italy (322 million). It is in Flanders, where the population density is the highest, that one counts the most dead.
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To put an end to this bad publicity, the Prime Minister, Sophie Wilmès, took the lead last week, saying that Belgium was showing " greater transparency by reporting the total number of deaths, including in nursing homes, including suspect cases and without excluding patients with other diseases ”. For David Clarinval, Federal Minister for the Budget and member
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