“We cannot now undermine all the efforts that have already been made.
I would prefer that this Christmas we end this disastrous year rather than start a new disastrous year.
The quarantine measures will remain in effect until January 15, we will not overestimate their (results) earlier, ”TASS quotes the words of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
The only indulgence the government made was permission to open all stores in addition to the currently operating pharmacies and grocery stores.
Earlier it was reported that the highest death rate in the European Union from coronavirus infection in terms of 100 thousand population in two weeks was recorded in the Czech Republic, Belgium and Bulgaria.