Another 257 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Belgium in the past 24 hours, which is an increase compared to the 137 infections the day before, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, as the country has been witnessing a general decline in infection rate and serious cases over the past month

Police in Belgium and France have detained 26 people involved in the incident of Vietnamese migrants frozen to death in a lorry during an attempted smuggling into the United Kingdom last fall, Europol, the European Union's Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, said in a press release on Wednesday