FILE PHOTO: People eat while they sit at Brussels' Grand Place, as restaurants were forced to close for four weeks, after a Belgian federal government decision in order to tackle a surging second wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country, in Brussels, Belgium October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium, one of Europe's hardest hit countries by the coronavirus, further tightened restrictions on social contacts on Friday, banning fans from sports matches, limiting the number of people in cultural spaces and closing theme parks.
Belgium, which has already closed cafes, bars and restaurants and imposed a night curfew, has Europe's second highest infection rate per capita after the Czech Republic. Newinfections hit a peak of 10,500 on Thursday.
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