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Protests broke out in the Belgian capital on Sunday. People from abroad also traveled to the demonstration against the Belgian corona measures.
Several thousand people took to the streets in the Belgian capital on Sunday.
They demonstrated against the corona measures in force in the country.
In the last few weeks, the daily new infections in Belgium have risen to over 60,000.
Thousands demonstrated against the corona restrictions in Brussels on Sunday. According to the DPA news agency, there were around 50,000 people. According to AFP, participants from other countries also traveled to the demonstration in the Belgian capital, where the most important EU institutions are based. The crowd was significantly larger than at previous protests in Brussels.
Some sense behind them a tool for controlling the population.
Reuters/Johanna Geron
According to an AFP reporter, people from abroad have also come to take part in the demonstration.
Reuters/Johanna Geron
The organizers, including the movements World Wide Demonstration for Freedom and Europeans United for Freedom, had called on demonstrators from other EU countries to join the protest. Participants waved Polish, Dutch and Romanian flags, among others.
The demonstrators held up banners with slogans against Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. They also criticized the Corona passport, with which a corona vaccination or a negative test must be proven in numerous public institutions in Belgium.
60,000 new infections per day
In Belgium, the number of new infections every day had risen to more than 60,000 in the past week. With a population of eleven and a half million, the small country is currently registering around twice as many infections as Switzerland. However, because of the usually milder course of an infection with the dominant omicron variant and the high vaccination rate, the Belgian health system is not as heavily burdened as in previous corona waves.
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(AFP/bho)