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Belgium government has decided on a raft of further measures designed to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus and reduced the pressure on the health care system.

After a meeting lasting more than five hours additional measures were agreed. The measures will take effect at midnight on Sunday and will remain in force in the whole of Belgium for six weeks.

*** All shops selling non-essential goods will have to close. As during the spring lockdown the shops that will be allowed to remain open are those selling food (both for humans and animals), pharmacies and newsagents. Large supermarkets that sell a range of non-food goods, for example clothes and electrical goods, will be restricted in what they can sell. This is to prevent unfair competition.

*** Unlike during the first lockdown households will be allowed to receive visitors. These visitors are a so-called “cuddle contacts”, someone with whom you have normal relations and don’t have to social distance with. Each family member is allowed one "cuddle contact" each.

*** The half term school holidays that began this evening will be extended to last two full weeks and will end on Sunday 15 November.

*** Telework will be mandatory where this is possible. Where this is not possible employers must ensure that their employees can work safely.

*** The curfew currently in force will remain so for the duration of the lockdown. However, unlike earlier this year Belgium's borders will not be closed. There will also not be a ban on non-essential journies.

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