As Covid-19 infections continued their record rise on Friday, the government moved to restrict travel and shopping. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Friday ranked Belgium as the worst affected nation in the 27-nation bloc, with 1,600 cases per 100,000 people. Hotspots like Spain and Italy have less than a third of that total, highlighting how acute the country’s crisis has become. Belgium, however, will still allow people to travel to their hotel or secondary residence, often on the coast or in the verdant Ardennes hills. He added that the true total of infections is higher than reported because testing has been reduced for specific categories of people.

Source: Irish Independent October 31, 2020 03:00 UTC