Belgium reports highest rate of Covid-19 infections in EU, mulls new national lockdown

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The Belgian government will convene on Friday (Oct 30) to decide on a potential new national lockdown.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

BRUSSELS - The Belgian government will convene on Friday to decide on a potential new national lockdown with the country now suffering the highest rate of coronavirus infections per 100,000 citizens, according to official data.

New daily infections in Belgium, where the European Union and Nato have their headquarters, hit a peak of more than 18,000 on Oct 20, almost a 10-fold rise from the high of a spring wave of the pandemic. In Liege, the Belgian city with the highest number of Covid-19 infections, hundreds of patients are admitted daily, its main hospital said in a Facebook post.

 

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