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Almost 10,000 volunteers from Red Cross Flanders are ready to be deployed in the region’s rest homes.
While in Boussu, supermarket-goers must enter through the ‘disinfection tunnel’, in Brussels, they are invited to visit the ‘StaySafe cabin’.
The mayors of Saint-Josse and Woluwe-Saint-Lambert have announced that facemasks will be distributed to residents of the Brussels municipalities.
The first municipalities have announced the cancellation of all events within their borders long after the current measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus have passed.
Belgium is to begin planning how - and when - to ease its coronavirus restrictions, with a view to a "gradual" reopening of public life over several months.
A large majority of people who can work from home are doing so under the coronavirus shutdown, and those aged 65 and older are following the regulations much more stringently than the other
Belgian authorities fear they may have fallen victim to a coronavirus scam - after a €5 million order for protective masks failed to turn up.
The city of Ghent has launched a trial system to improve response times in emergency situations involving the elderly: a yellow plastic box that’s kept in the fridge.
The poorest neighbourhoods in Brussels also have the highest concentrations of fine particulates in the air.
