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Restrictions tightened, but no new virus lockdown in Belgium

by Samuel Petrequin
| October 23, 2020 1:33 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Prime minister Alexander De Croo stopped short Friday of imposing another full lockdown, as the country did in March, but introduced a series of new restrictive measures as the number of COVID-19-related hospital admissions and deaths continues to soar.

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