Health care staff work at a COVID-19 mobile test center Wednesday, April 22, in Brussels, Belgium.
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READ MORE: An emergency doctor at Saint-Pierre Hospital in Brussels has converted a bus into a COVID-19 mobile test center, which goes from care home to care home to test staff and residents. The aim is to increase the number of tests carried out daily in the city. Belgium has reported more than 41,800 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 6,262 deaths.
Belgium's historic city centers of Bruges and Brussels, usually so busy with visitors that authorities have considered limiting tourists, are facing an unprecedented challenge as the coronavirus pandemic cuts tourism to zero, officials say.
Unlike other top European tourism spots such as Paris and Amsterdam, UNESCO world heritage site Bruges is almost totally reliant on its eight million visitors a year, who bring in 750 million euros annually.
The director-general of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that most coronavirus epidemics in Europe “appear to be stable or declining” but warned “the virus will be with us for a long time.”
During his daily COVID-19 briefing in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus further cautioned that “most countries are still in the early stages of their epidemics” and that some that were hit early by the pandemic “are now starting to see a resurgence in cases.” (VOA/AFP/Reuters)
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