Status: 09/30/2020 9:52 pm

Due to the increasing number of new corona infections, the federal government has issued a travel advisory for all of Belgium. More recently, only the capital Brussels was classified as a risk zone.

Belgium has been particularly hard hit by the corona pandemic. With only a good eleven million inhabitants, it now has around 10,000 deaths, more than Germany, seven times larger. There are currently 117,115 confirmed infections. Now the Foreign Ministry has issued a travel advisory for the entire country. This can be seen in the updated travel advice of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In Belgium, only the capital Brussels was recently listed as a crown risk zone. The statewide expansion now also affects the border regions with North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.

A travel advisory is issued if the number of new corona infections exceeds the mark of 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days. It is not a ban, but it is said to have a significant deterrent effect, especially for tourists. At the same time, it allows vacationers to cancel reservations free of charge.

So far 15 EU countries, some of them risk areas

The list of corona risk areas maintained by the Robert Koch Institute is now expected to be updated. So far, 15 of the 27 EU countries are at least partially corona risk areas, Belgium, Spain, the Czech Republic and Luxembourg are even fully so.

Poland is the only one of Germany’s nine neighboring countries that is not yet on the risk list. But the number of infections is increasing there as well. The criteria for classification as risk zone and travel warning are identical for EU countries. In both cases, the number of new infections is used as a reference.


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