Belgium's largest vaccination centre offers jabs

Belgium's biggest vaccination centre opened this week in the north of Brussels to give COVID-19 vaccinations first to health care workers, and then to the whole Belgian population.

The Brussels Expo facilities received 4,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines and began administering them to Brussels region health workers.

The aim is to vaccinate 30,000 people in the next four weeks, and then speeding up to vaccinate more than 100,0000 people per month, according to Brussels Expo Chief Operating Officer Emin Luka.

Only a few dozen of people showed up Friday morning, as the vaccine is offered on a voluntary basis, even for health care workers.

According to the latest figures, more than 370,000 people in Belgium have received a COVID-19 jab, in a country of 11.5 million inhabitants.

Belgium has been hard hit by the crisis, with 746,302 people infected by the virus since the start of the pandemic.

21,821 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported.

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