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March 28, 2020

Europe’s virus toll surges, world plunges into recession

Europe was reeling from a staggering surge in coronavirus deaths Saturday, still days or weeks from what experts desperately hope will be the epidemic’s peak. Grim new tolls from Italy and Spain came as the IMF confirmed the world economy…
March 27, 2020

Belgium extends coronavirus lockdown to April 18

Belgium on Friday extended its general lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus by two weeks to April 18. The decision, confirmed by top officials, extended a confinement that began on March 18 until the end of the country’s…
March 27, 2020

Cat found infected with coronavirus in Belgium

A pet cat has been infected with the novel coronavirus in Belgium after being contaminated by its owner, Belgian health authorities said Friday. Cases of contamination of pets are rare and authorities ruled out any risk of contamination to humans…
March 27, 2020

Belgium’s homeless struggling under virus lockdown

Stay home to avoid coronavirus: simple advice but impossible for those who live on the streets. In Brussels, local support group Samusocial is trying to help them and has set up a crisis centre for those tested positive with COVID-19….
March 26, 2020

Belgian hospital braces for cresting virus wave

The Erasmus hospital in Brussels is on a war footing. Dozens of beds are lined up at a triage centre alongside accident and emergency, ahead of what Belgium fears will be its turn to face the worst of the coronavirus…
March 25, 2020

Belgium looks to ramp up coronavirus testing

Belgium said Wednesday it wants to boost its coronavirus testing fivefold, to 10,000 per day from the 2,000 currently which some doctors judge to be gravely insufficient. Philippe De Backer, the minister tasked with coordinating the effort to slow the…
March 25, 2020

French court releases Malian singer despite backing extradition

A Paris appeals court on Wednesday granted Malian musician Rokia Traore conditional release despite ruling she could be extradited to Belgium over a child custody dispute — a decision her lawyer vowed to contest. Singer and guitarist Traore was arrested…
March 23, 2020

First coronavirus death in Brussels’s EU institutions

A male employee at the European Parliament has become the first person in the main EU governing institutions in Brussels to die after contracting the new coronavirus, officials told AFP on Monday. A parliament spokesman told AFP the man was…
March 23, 2020

Brussels police fine hundreds in parks despite lockdown

Police in Belgium’s capital have handed out hundreds of fines to residents ignoring lockdown rules in city parks, as restrictions intensify to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. Officers handed out nearly 300 fines on Sunday in green spaces…

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