Above average death rate in December due to “Combination of viruses, cold and poor air quality” | VRT NWS: news

Between 1 and 25 December last year almost 9,300 people died in Belgium. This is significantly above the average for the first 25 days of December in other years. The figures appear in an article in Friday’s edition of the daily ‘Het Laatste Nieuws’. The number of deaths is comparable with that in December 2020 and 2021 when the coronavirus pandemic was still very much in full swing. However, in December 2022 other factors than just coronavirus served to push up the number of deaths.