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Philippe Bodson was hospitalised two weeks ago after contracted the novel coronavirus. He had been on breathing apparatus for the past week.

Net Brussel is asking people in Brussels not to put out paper and cardboard (yellow bin bag) or PMD waste (blue bin bag) for collection next week.

The patient was transferred to Ghent from the hospital in the Dutch town of Terneuzen, around 35 kilometres north of the East Flemish city.

A ministerial decree published on Friday in the Belgian Official Journal has tightened still further the rules on how many people are allowed to attend funer...

The Federal Police stress in a statement that day trips, weekends and other recreational trips to the coast and other holiday destinations in Belgium are not...

The Flemish Education Department has issued guidelines for distance learning is teaching in schools remains suspended beyond the end of the Easter holidays.

Staff at ten Carrefour supermarkets, 4 of which in Brussels and two of which in Flemish Brabant, have downed tools.

The office at which asylum application could be made at the Klein Kasteeltje in the centre of Brussels closed its doors when the measures designed to curb th...

DigitalForYouth.be is distributing 1,200 laptop computers to pupils in Dutch-medium education that don’t have (sufficient) access to a computer in their homes.

At around 9:30 on Friday morning a consignment of 7 million protective mouth masks arrived at the airport at Bierset, near Liège.

Limburg Province is one of the Flemish provinces hardest hit by COVID-19 at the moment. Corona cases have been diagnosed in all the province’s municipalitie...

The Governor of West Flanders Province has appealed for people not to travel to the coast this weekend and during the Easter holiday. Mr Decaluwé warned tha...

A delivery of 800 ventilators and other medical equipment has arrived at Liège Airport. The ventilators and other equipment are a donation from Chinese e-co...

The municipal authorities in Halle and Beersel (both Flemish Brabant) warn that the Hallerbos woods are only accessible to walkers, joggers and cyclists that...

The corona emergency is playing havoc with refuse collection services. In Brussels there aren’t enough staff to collect paper and plastic bottles for recycl...

Good news for those of you wishing to get rid of unwanted pieced of old furniture, other bulky waste or things such as old chip fat that are not taken away b...

These are hard times for residents of Belgian nursing homes. Visits have been banned. The family of Granddad Crombez in Torhout (West Flanders) thought the...

The Federal Economy Minister Nathalie Muylle (Flemish Christian democrat) has said in an interview that once the measures designed to curb the spread of the ...

In Huldenberg (Flemish Brabant), fake police officers stopped a woman who had taken the car to go somewhere, and ordered her to pay a fine.

Local police in Brussels-Elsene have issued several fines during road checks yesterday.

Last night, we have turned the clocks forward one hour. The change means we lose one hour's sleep.

If necessary the measures could be extended either in part or in full for a further two weeks until 3 May.

Over the next few days Belgian supermarkets will donate a total of 500,000 meals to food banks across the country.

Earlier this week a crew member tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

The good people of Bruges are fortunate in normal times. Though the Zwin estuary that connected the city to the North Sea silted up long ago, a port was bui...

Belgian interior minister Pieter De Crem has thrown cold water on the idea of restricting the distance people are allowed to travel from home to exercise to ...

In a bid to prevent staff shortages as Belgium prepares for more COVID-19 cases health institute Sciensano has issued new guidance. Health care workers disp...

Brussels police drew up 118 police reports yesterday after people flouted the government’s anti-corona measures.

The City of Ghent’s (East Flanders) collection point where companies can donate material that will be of assistance to health care professionals during the C...

A guideline drawn up by Belgium’s geriatricians urges the authorities of nursing homes not to send nursing home residents with coronavirus who are already se...

While freight traffic is allowed through, all cars that wish to cross the border are checked to ensure that those inside have a bonafide reason for crossing ...

Up to 100 customs officers will assist teams from the Federal Highways Police from Wednesday with roadside border checks.

The Roman Catholic Church in Belgium has announced that all public religious services will be suspended until 19 April.

Seniors at a nursing home in the easterly city of Liège won’t easily forget their day. Now that visits to nursing homes and residential homes for seniors ar...

Over the past two weeks funeral director Stefaan Romeyns from Brakel in East Flanders has livestreamed two funeral services.

The Belgian rail and rail track companies NMBS and Infrabel are axing many services.

A delivery of over 6 million mouth masks has arrived at Liège Airport. Most of the masks are surgical masks, but a shipment of 150,000 FFP2 masks are intend...

The measures taken to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus meant that the ceremony was much more low key than it would otherwise have been.

A number of minor roads that cross Belgium’s borders with France and The Netherlands have now been barricaded to prevent people from crossing the border with...

Since 3pm on Friday systematic checks have been carried out at or near to our country’s borders with France, Germany, Luxembourg and The Netherlands.

On Friday a number of would-be tourist were fined and sent packing and on Saturday there was a large police presence at a number of locations.

Lectures and seminars at Flanders’ five universities will take place solely online for the rest of the academic year.

The measure will be felt across all 19 municipalities that make up the Brussels-Capital Region.

The measures came into force at 3pm on Friday.