COVID-19: Riot police deploy water cannon and tear gas against anti-lockdown protesters in Brussels

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Belgian police used tear gas and water cannon on protesters in Brussels to disperse crowds demonstrating against new coronavirus restrictions

Belgium's prime minister, Alexander De Croo, announced on Friday that day care centres and primary schools would close a week early for the Christmas holidays.

Mr De Croo added that children must wear masks from the age of six, and that indoor events would be limited to a maximum of 200 people.Nightclubs have already been ordered to close, and the government told bars and restaurants to shut at 11pm for three weeks. Despite speculation that closing times would be brought forward to 8pm, ministers decided against it.According to the latest national health figures, cases in Belgium appear to have reached a plateau.

On a weekly average, 17,862 new daily cases were reported in Belgium, a rise of 6% compared to the previous week, reported the Associated Press.Hospital admissions rose 4%, leaving more than 3,700 people in hospital with COVID, 821 of them in intensive care. More than 27,000 people with the virus have died in Belgium, which has a population of 11 million, since the outbreak began last year.

 

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Yes people of Belgium 🇧🇪 freedom

Power to the people. These gestapo tactics will only give the people more resolve. Fight the good fight my Belgium friends, it only ends when we say it ends

You got to feel sad for these lonely pathetic people...If they had families they lived or children they loved they would be doing everything to protect them from this horrible virus. Sadly many have mental health issues an no love in their life COVID19 COVIDIOT Covid

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