Belgium reports 89 new COVID-19 infections

Eighty-nine more people have tested positive for the new coronavirus (Covid-19) in Belgium in the last 24 hours. Report informs citing The Brussels Times, Federal Public Health Service said on Tuesday.

The total number of confirmed cases in Belgium, since the beginning of the pandemic, reached 59,437.

Forty-four of the newly-infected people live in Flanders, 34 in Wallonia, and 11 in Brussels.

Sixteen new patients admitted to hospital in the last 24 hours, and nine people discharged, bringing the total number of people in hospital because of the coronavirus at the moment to 573.

Of the patients in a hospital, 115 are in the intensive care unit, which is one fewer than the day before.

Since March 15, a total of 16,324 patients have been declared recovered and discharged from the hospital.