Coronablog – 5,000 against Brussels corona, 30 people administrative measures
By the end of January, 90 percent of Brussels residents who are fully vaccinated must also have received a booster shot. That is what the Brussels Health Inspectorate says.
Omikron is advancing even faster in Brussels than in the rest of the country. Vaccination rates are also lower. While almost 6 in 10 adult Flemish people have already received a booster shot, in Brussels this is only 3 in 10. But anyone who can get a booster will be able to do so quickly, says Inge Neven of the Health Inspectorate. “We now have to invite a hundred thousand people. That is people 4 months after the previous injection had not yet started.
Whether everyone will show up remains to be seen. Although Neven has good hopes for it. “We now see that about 80 percent of the over-65s showed up for the booster shot. For young people it is slightly lower, but that always took a little more time and they were also vaccinated later. But we are monitoring it further. , and hopefully we’ll get a good grade,” says Neven.
The largest, meanwhile, continues to surprise people who don’t even get the first shot. “If you are not vaccinated yet, that also means that you will get 3 more shots. We also know that a large already doubted about vaccination was the only way out of the covid crisis. Those people get a little bit. We Which of course do not want to say that I do not think that people should be vaccinated, do get vaccinated,” says Neven.
In the meantime, Brussels remains committed to, among other things, vaccination buses and vaccination antennas in the area, and the correct information, says Neven.