The advice on how to protect yourself against the coronaviruses can be found on a poster in the market square. One of the city's landmarks is the town hall with the Belfry tower.
One of the country's leading virologists said that Belgium has confirmed a case of the new, heavily mutated variant of the virus that causes Covid-19.
A sample was confirmed as the novel B. 1.1.529 variant in a traveler who returned from Egypt on November 11. The patient had symptoms on Nov. 22.
The capital of the European Union is in Belgium.
The World Health Organization says the variant was first detected in a small number of samples. There were reports on Friday that there were cases in Israel and Hong Kong.
The B. 1.1.529 variant contains 30 different variations of the spikeProtein that allows the virus to enter the body, according to the South African Department of Health. The new strain has roughly 50 changes in it's structure, including 10 to the part of the virus that first comes in contact with cells.
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