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The Belgian Government relaxes its already lax containment measures for the coronavirus and will allow families with children under the age of six and / or elderly in their care to use the car for recreational activities, according to the Belgian National Crisis Center on Monday. .

The Executive of Sophie Wilmès allows, and even recommends, playing sports or walking outdoors respecting the safety distance, although until now the directive only contemplated the use of the car for essential trips, prohibiting its mobilization to go to a park or distant forest to the family home.

Crisis center spokesman Yves Stevens said that with this change "a response is being given to families living in the city who do not have a nearby park."

However, Stevens clarified that the distance traveled by the car must be limited , and that citizens should not take advantage of this modification to go for walks by the sea or in the Ardennes, a region of extensive forests that separates Belgium, Luxembourg and France. In addition, he recalled that it is still prohibited to settle in the parks for a picnic or sunbathe.

Despite the permissiveness of the confinement decreed to slow down the transmission of COVID-19, the police in the Brussels-Capital area imposed a total of 488 fines this weekend on people who did not respect the confinement measures, according to the Belgian agency. .

"It is a great challenge to enjoy the good weather of the last days while respecting the instructions," acknowledged today the experts from the Crisis Center and the Belgian Federal Public Health Service, who encouraged "to enjoy the sun respecting the measures of confinement" already "discover the city on foot or by bicycle" during the Easter holidays.

The authorities of Belgium, a country that in the last 24 hours added 185 new deaths from coronavirus for a total of 1,632 deaths during the pandemic, said Monday that progress is being made "towards stabilization", but that the measures of confinement will still have to be maintained. for "several weeks".

After 26 days of mobility restrictions, the number of patients hospitalized in intensive care units has decreased for the first time since the start of the pandemic, by four fewer people, for a total of 1,257 out of 5,840 hospitalizations in total.

As for new infections in Belgium, the figure amounts to 1,123, to add up to a total of 20,814.

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