De Croo justified the latest decisions of the Concertation Committee on Wednesday by “recent worrying developments”.
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Lhe travelers who enter Belgian territory by air, river or rail will be systematically checked, Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden assured Wednesday. The new rules decided earlier today by the Concertation Committee stipulate that anyone returning to Belgium from a stay in the red zone of more than 48 hours must remain in quarantine and undergo a PCR screening test the first and the seventh. quarantine day.
Belgians returning from a high-risk area must complete a “Passenger Locator Form” (PLF – Passenger location form). Controls will be strengthened to ensure that the form is strictly completed. Travelers will then receive an SMS which will force them to quarantine.
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Controls will be systematic at stations, ports and airports, or for all those who have taken public transport to reach Belgium, said Annelies Verlinden. Motorists will be subject to regular checks – and visible, adds his cabinet – at the borders.
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On the RTBF television news set, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo also specified that the trail of a “vaccination passport”, ie a vaccination certificate which would constitute an authorization to travel, was purely hypothetical and “not envisaged short term “.
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The head of government also said he did not regret having left the borders open, stressing that Belgium was a “node” in terms of mobility and that it housed the headquarters of many international bodies.
Mr. De Croo justified the latest decisions of the Concertation Committee on Wednesday by “worrying recent developments”, in particular the situation in the United Kingdom, and the need to avoid the importation by travelers of a new strain of virus in Belgium. “We do not ask that to annoy people in their daily life, we ask because we are aware of the fact that there is a danger and we would not want to import into Belgium a new variant of the virus or that we are in a scenario that we have seen in the past during spring break. “
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