To cope with this situation, many European Union (EU) member states are looking to accelerate the campaign of vaccination against COVID-19, while tightening epidemic prevention measures, especially in response to with a variant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus in the UK.
In response to the second wave of infections, on October 30, 2020, the Belgian Government decided to re-block the country. Belgian officials also maintained a curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Since December 28, 2020, Belgium has deployed the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in 3 nursing homes.
To date, although hospitalization and morbidity indicators have both decreased, the number of SARS-Cov-2 virus infections is on a slight rise again (1,816 new cases per day for the past 7 days), Therefore, the Belgian Government is still cautious about maintaining strict anti-epidemic measures such as closing all restaurants, cafes, and bars; maintain curfew from 10pm to 6pm ...
With a population of only 11.5 million people, as of January 11, in Belgium, there have been 664,263 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic up to now and 20,078 of these cases have died out.
