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The municipality of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode is offering relaxation areas for residents living in cramped accommodation and suffering from the mental strain of the coronavirus crisis.
Belgium has allowed non-essential stores, museums and swimming pools to reopen from Tuesday 1 December - but will not relax the current rules on social contacts for the Christmas holidays.
As of 1 December, there will be 3,224 places in shelters available to homeless people in the Brussels region.
A damning report published by Amnesty International Vlaanderen states that Belgian authorities were in breach of human rights regulations with regards to nursing homes during the first few m
A study by KU Leuven and Sciensano has shown that children are more likely to be infected with Covid-19 than first thought – though they rarely become ill from the virus.
American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biopharma firm BioNTech have announced that their vaccine against Covid-19 is 90% effective.
A platform of coronavirus “super labs” has been launched today, with the aim of processing around 50,000 extra Covid-19 tests each day.
Hospitals and nursing homes are failing the relatives of coronavirus victims, according to a survey carried out by Ghent University Hospital.
Belgium has ordered non-essential stores, hairdressers, beauty salons and zoos to close from Monday, with new limits on social contacts in a bid to halt the rapid spread of coronavirus.
