Clashes as tens of thousands protest Covid rules in Belgium
Police fired water cannon and tear gas Sunday at stone-throwing protesters after tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Brussels against Covid-19 rules.
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Police fired water cannon and tear gas Sunday at stone-throwing protesters after tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Brussels against Covid-19 rules.
Police fired water cannon and tear gas Sunday at stone-throwing protesters after tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Brussels against Covid-19 rules.
Brussels-City has rented 100 hotel beds to house asylum-seekers who are sleeping rough. Up to 100 migrants are currently spending nights on the street around the Petit-Château immigration centre.
As winter arrives in the Northern Hemisphere, the European Union (EU) fears a new wave of COVID-19 infections. The level of concern for the COVID-19 situation in the EU was rated at 8.3 of 10, or "very high" last Friday by the European Center for Disease prevention and Control (ECDC).
In response to the tightened COVID-19 measures, demonstrations were held around Europe this past weekend, amid rising new cases and a new wave of pandemic.