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Demonstrators march during a protestation against coronavirus measures successful Brussels, Belgium, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Kindergartens and superior schools volition present adjacent for the vacation play a week early, connected Dec. 20, children indispensable deterioration masks from the property of 6. and attendance astatine indoor events is constricted to a maximum of 200 people. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

BRUSSELS – Hundreds of radical marched done cardinal Brussels connected Sunday to protestation tightened COVID-19 restrictions imposed by the Belgian authorities to antagonistic the latest spike successful coronavirus cases.

Marchers came to protestation the measures that were announced Friday, the 3rd week successful a enactment that the authorities has tightened its rules arsenic the latest surge successful cases strains the country’s wellness services, depriving radical with different life-threatening diseases similar crab of treatment.

Shouting “Freedom! Freedom!” and carrying banners that said, “United for our freedom, rights and our children,” radical marched to the European Union headquarters. Some besides carried signs captious of vaccines and against making the coronavirus shots mandatary.

On Friday, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced that kindergartens and superior schools volition adjacent for the vacation play a week early, and children indispensable present deterioration masks from the property of 6. Indoor events volition lone beryllium allowed with a maximum of 200 people.

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Previously, the authorities closed nightclubs, and ordered bars and restaurants to unopen astatine 11 p.m. for 3 weeks. Speculation had been rife that closing times would beryllium brought guardant to 8 p.m. but the furniture decided against it, for now.

According to the latest coronavirus figures, the federation of 11 cardinal appears to person reached a plateau.

On a play average, 17,862 caller regular cases were reported, a emergence of 6% implicit the erstwhile week. Hospital admissions roseate 4%. More than 3,700 radical are successful infirmary with the virus, 821 of them successful intensive care. More than 27,000 radical person died since the outbreak began past year.

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