The federated entities must set up a “contact tracing” system for potentially contaminated people. – Wallonia, Brussels and Flanders intend to recruit 2,000 investigators who will be responsible for identifying citizens potentially infected with the coronavirus, by tracing the contacts of positive people, reports L’Echo on Tuesday. People who have been in contact with a … Read more
France was the fourth country to pass the limit of twenty thousand corona deaths on Monday, infections in Italy are decreasing for the first time and part of the stores have reopened in Germany. NU.nl made an overview of the corona measures and figures in European neighboring countries. After the United States, Spain and Italy, … Read more
After several cell towers in the Netherlands, a cell tower was also set on fire in Belgium on Saturday evening, the police confirmed on Sunday. VRT. It concerns a transmission mast from Proximus and Telenet in the town of Pelt, which is close to the Dutch border. The fence around the radio mast has been … Read more
Posted on Friday, April 17, 2020 at 10:34 a.m. By Sudinfo — From the start of the epidemic in China, this Belgian doctor tried to alert the European authorities to the seriousness of the situation … to no avail. – – Nathanael Goldman is a Belgian pediatrician who lives and works in Shanghai. He witnessed … Read more
Belgium and Germany will both extend their corona measures until May 3, Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès and German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced in their own press conferences on Wednesday. There are, however, some relaxations in both countries, such as the opening of certain stores. In Belgium, garden centers and do-it-yourself shops may open their … Read more
Posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 10:02 p.m.— While a new Security Council is to take place this Wednesday, after which the federal government will announce the measures that will be applied in the coming weeks, the virologist Marc Van Ranst, who is part of the GEES (the group on the exit strategy of … Read more
It was the world before, the time of a certain carelessness, of the miracle in public. That evening, Tuesday, February 18, Pastor Samuel Peterschmitt is still joking. On the stage at the back of the worship hall, the fifties with salt and pepper hair, relaxed in blue shirt and jeans, wanders microphone in hand. Like … Read more
The Belgian police have arrested at least 25 rioters after a protest in the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht turned into violence on Saturday. It has been restless in the municipality since a Friday night, a nineteen-year-old man died after a collision with a police vehicle. The boy had fled from a police corona check, writes … Read more
Posted on Saturday April 11, 2020 at 11:01 am— The Crisis Center and the FPS Public Health took stock this Saturday on the spread of the coronavirus in Belgium during their daily review. – – In the past 24 hours, 327 new deaths have been recorded and 421 people have been hospitalized while 418 people … Read more
Posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 11:53 p.m. By Sudinfo with Belga — “The line is thin between overdoing it and doing too little against the Covid-19. Maggie De Block strikes the right balance, “said Belgian Hans Kluge, director for Europe at the World Health Organization (WHO). Speaking Wednesday in an interview with the … Read more