Not sure people realise how bad things are getting in Belgium

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Kleine orangene Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine orangene Raute">17,709 tests yesterday
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Kleine orangene Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine orangene Raute">Cases per 100,000 is - 1,115.6
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Kleine orangene Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine orangene Raute">Almost 600 hospital admissions yesterday, was 100 a day only 3 weeks - nearly as high first time round
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Kleine orangene Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine orangene Raute">Deaths up to 74 on Friday, 3 weeks ago was 6 deaths

Add to this

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Kleine orangene Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine orangene Raute">Hospitals are filling up, patients in some parts being transferred elsewhere
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Kleine orangene Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine orangene Raute">Some patients being discharged early
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Kleine orangene Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine orangene Raute">Suggestion some patients in next few weeks will have tio be treated outside Belgium
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔸" title="Kleine orangene Raute" aria-label="Emoji: Kleine orangene Raute">Non #coronavirus treatment being cancelled or postponed

AND THERE IS THIS, in Liege, in southern Belgium, 20% of hospital workers are sick or too exhausted to show up

"In March we had no masks and no protective equipment. Now that we& #39;ve got them, we don& #39;t have enough people to put them on"