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Nationally, it remains mandatory to wear mouth and nose protection in public transport (including at stations), at airports, in contact professions and in healthcare institutions. In Brussels, the cap will remain mandatory in shops for longer, Wallonia will probably follow the capital region.
Crownpas
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo further announced in a press conference that nightlife will be allowed to open again next month. Visitors must show a corona pass at the entrance. Organizers of indoor events with more than five hundred people are given the freedom to choose. If they do not want to enter the corona pass, that is allowed, but visitors are obliged to wear a mouth cap.
The corona rules will be quite fragmented at our southern neighbors from 1 October. Belgian federal states can decide for themselves whether they also want to introduce the corona pass in other places. Brussels, where only half of the population is vaccinated, wants to introduce the ‘Sanitary Pass’, for example, in catering, sports centers and healthcare institutions. This will probably happen for up to three months. Some Flemish suburbs have indicated that they would like to follow the capital.
Next week, Flanders will make a decision about the use of the corona pass, but the rules will probably not be as strict as in the Netherlands. In Belgium, 84 percent of adults have been vaccinated, making the country one of the world’s best.
Brussels
Things are not going so well in and around Brussels. Prime Minister De Croo has lashed out at people who do not allow themselves to be pricked. According to him, this group is responsible for maintaining strict rules. The liberal calls the situation in the capital ‘unacceptable and untenable’.
According to De Croo, there is an epidemic of unvaccinated people: “Where too few people have been vaccinated, the figures are going in the wrong direction. There are relatively many young people in hospitals. They are on average 50 years old and not vaccinated.”
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