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Belgium shuts down all schools, bars, restaurants, gyms and leisure sites until April 3rd

Posted by Adys
Tags: public health, business, belgium, coronaviruses.covid19, education, schools, lockdown, coronavirus
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/100117/difficult-but-necessary-belgium-turbocharges-coronavirus-response/

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Title
'Difficult but necessary': Belgium turbocharges coronavirus response
Published
Mar 13 2020

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  1. Adys
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    As I write this, it's been announced 24 hours ago and comes in full effect in a few minutes. Today, Brussels became weird. You couldn't really see the effects of the coronavirus here until now; we...

    As I write this, it's been announced 24 hours ago and comes in full effect in a few minutes. Today, Brussels became weird. You couldn't really see the effects of the coronavirus here until now; we didn't have panic, overall everything was pretty chill. Today there was a big shopping rush, and … almost everything else was dead. Even though everything was still open today, most people just accepted stuff would be closed.

    I took an usually-very-busy metro that was nearly empty, coming back from the usually-extremely-busy skating rink that was also nearly empty. Check out this screenshot from earlier today.

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    Adys
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    OT, clicking the "europe.belgium" tag brings me to this page which doesn't list the topic. The "belgium" tag does work though. Weird. @deimos?

    OT, clicking the "europe.belgium" tag brings me to this page which doesn't list the topic. The "belgium" tag does work though. Weird. @deimos?

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    1. Deimos
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      Just timing - it no longer has the "europe.belgium" tag, @mycketforvirrad re-tagged it. For location tags we've always just been using the country names, not a larger region/continent above it.

      Just timing - it no longer has the "europe.belgium" tag, @mycketforvirrad re-tagged it. For location tags we've always just been using the country names, not a larger region/continent above it.

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