Belgium scraps almost all COVID-19 measures as crisis eases

Individuals carrying face masks wait to enter a pharmacy within the Rue Neuve in Brussels, Belgium on Nov. 27, 2021. (AP Picture/Olivier Matthys)

BRUSSELS --
Belgium started easing most COVID-19 restrictions Monday within the largest transfer to calm down measures because the onset of the disaster some two years in the past.

Gone is the coronavirus passport that enables entry into bars, eating places, theatres and cinemas, in addition to capability limits.

Facemasks, lengthy the image of the pandemic, will now not be obligatory besides on public transport and within the healthcare sector.

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The federal government introduced final week that the nation of 11 million will go from code orange - the second-toughest for virus measures - to code yellow as of Monday.

Infections within the week ending March 5 fell by 24 per cent in comparison with the earlier week and stood at 5,854 circumstances. New hospitalizations and intensive care circumstances continued to say no quickly.

Different European international locations are additionally enjoyable their pandemic measures, as increasingly governments design protocols to co-exist with the coronavirus.