Locked up in Belgium
Audio 19:30
Travelers at Zaventem International Airport in Brussels, January 22, 2021. (Illustrative image) AP - Francisco Seco
By: Joana Hostein
21 min
Faced with the strengthening of the pandemic and the arrival of variants of the virus, Belgium was the first country in Europe to ask the question of its borders and decided to close them.
Since January 27 and until March 1, 2021, non-essential travel is prohibited, this concerns both foreigners who want to come to the flat country and Belgians who want to leave it.
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“Locked up in Belgium”, a great report by Joana Hostein.
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