Belgium has first virus deaths, briefly holds ship


  • World
  • Wednesday, 11 Mar 2020

FILE PHOTO - A woman wearing a protective face mask, due to a coronavirus outbreak, is seen at Zaventem international airport near Brussels, Belgium, March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium reported its first three deaths from coronavirus on Wednesday and briefly held a cruise ship with more than 3,000 people on board in the port of Zeebrugge.

West Flanders province governor Carl Decaluwe banned anyone from disembarking in the morning as two people who had been in contact with an infected German were in quarantine on the Italian-flagged ship with some 2,500 passengers and 640 crew, .

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