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The COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium has resulted in 4,892,342 [2] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 34,339 [2] deaths.. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Belgium on 4 February 2020, when one of a group of nine Belgians repatriated from Wuhan to Brussels was reported to have tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Since the 1950s the newspaper market has been in decline in Belgium. [1] The number of national daily newspapers in the country was 50 in 1950, [1] whereas it was 30 in 1965. [2]
Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN; Dutch pronunciation: [ət ˌlaːtstə ˈnius]; in English The Latest News) is a Dutch-language newspaper based in Antwerp, Belgium. It was founded by Julius Hoste Sr. on 7 June 1888. It is now part of DPG Media, [2] and is the most popular newspaper in Flanders and Belgium.
The paper is published by De Persgroep which also publishes Het Laatste Nieuws. [7] De Morgen presents itself as an independent and progressive newspaper and a more dynamic alternative to its two competitors in the Flemish market, De Standaard and De Tijd. On the other hand, the paper is described as a leftist and socialistic publication. [3]
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explained: CO for corona, VI for virus, D for disease and 19 for when the outbreak was first identified (31 December 2019). [23] WHO additionally uses "the COVID-19 virus" and "the virus responsible for COVID-19" in public communications. [22] WHO named variants of concern and variants of interest using Greek letters.
The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, [1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 17 November 2019. [2]