“A cold shower”, these are the words of Alexander De Croo, himself, the Belgian Prime Minister, because all week we had been prepared to relax the measures. We even mentioned a deconfinement schedule “, indicates live from Brussels the journalist of France Televisions Julien Gasparutto, Saturday February 27th. Belgium is finally caught up by the epidemic.
“The number of contaminations suddenly started to rise again: + 25%. More than half of these contaminations are believed to be due to the British variant”, adds Julien Gasparutto. In addition, hospitalizations are also increasing. The government is therefore allowing itself an additional week of reflection. “In the meantime, the social bubble remains reduced to its strict minimum (…) and tourist travel abroad remains prohibited“, concludes the journalist.
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