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Added on the 01/03/2021 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Brussels, Mar 1 (EFE), (Camera: Leo Rodríguez).- Belgian authorities have relaxed some measures, with a nocturnal curfew being shortened by two hours for the whole country except for the capital city.So-called ‘metiers de contact’ (‘contact professions’) such as barber shops, hair and beauty salons, non-automated sunbeds, non-medical pedicures, manicures, tattoo parlors, piercing and massage parlors were allowed to reopen as of Monday.The easing of restrictions went ahead despite a moderate increase in infection numbers in the second half of February.FOOTAGE OF BEAUTY SALONS AND TATTOO PARLORS IN BRUSSELS.
After almost seven months of a second national lockdown, thirsty Belgians gather on terraces in Brussels. Belgium was one of the hardest hit countries in the first wave of the epidemic last year, and locked down harder than some when the later surges hit. IMAGES
Brussels (Belgium), May 1 (EFE) .- (Camera: Leo Rodríguez) After a year hidden due to the pandemic, the most splendid flowers and plants in Belgium, the orange trees, camellias or palm trees that have spread since the 19th century through the greenhouses and gardens of the palace of the king of the Belgians, just recovered their traditional annual meeting with the common people.FOOTAGE OF THE ROYAL CASTLE OF LAEKEN GREENHOUSES IN BRUSSELSSOUNDBITES BY MICHEL DEKENS, PROPERTY MANAGER1.-The greenhouses were built because King Leopold II (1835-1909) wanted them and had a double objective: to receive guests and house his collection of plants.2.- Here we find a great variety of plants, mainly subtropical. There are palm trees, bananas, fig trees ... and next to it we have orange trees, which spend the winter in the greenhouse and which go outside in the summer: orange, lemon, olive trees, laurels.
Brussels, Apr 26 (EFE) .- (Camera: Leo Rodríguez) The drip of customers in the hairdresser that Aline has run for three decades in Brussels was resumed little by little with the reopening this Monday of non-essential shops in Belgium in a new phase of its gradual de-escalation of restrictions against the pandemic.RESOURCES OF ACTIVITIES IN HAIRDRESSERS AND A BEAUTY ESTABLISHMENT. INCLUDES TOTALS.1.- AlineIt has been very hard for me and all the other hairdressers in the area, in Belgium, and the world. I think for all traders it has been hard.2.- Loanny (In Spanish)Exactly, especially since we here have the rent that is not expensive and we have also sent several letters to the owner but they have not reduced us even 10%.3.- TarikIt has been a real problem. I would say that he has spent 1,500 euros a month out of his pocket while he was unable to work.
Brussels, Jun 15 (EFE), (Camera: Leo Rodríguez).-Traffic at the Brussels-Zaventem airport increased significantly on Monday after the country reopened its border with the EU countries, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway. FOOTAGE OF THE BRUSSELS-ZAVENTEM AIRPORT ON MONDAY.