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Report: Belgium nursing homes failed patients amid pandemic

by Samuel Petrequin
| November 16, 2020 12:30 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — Amnesty International said Belgium authorities “abandoned” thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic following an investigation published Monday that described the situation as “human rights violations."

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