27 July 2021: Postcard Greetings from Port-en-Bessin-Huppain

27 July 2021: There is no explosion of infections in Belgium like in the Netherlands, where all brakes are off, but the figures are still going up. Between 17 and 23 July, an average of 1,472 new coronavirus infections were detected per day, a 10% increase from the average of the previous week. While there is no reason to panic about the increase in Belgium’s coronavirus measures, everyone has to remain vigilant and leave the “empire of freedom” for after the summer, according to Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke. We now have been told that more freedom will be possible after the summer, when the number of fully vaccinated people has gone up from 50% to at least 70%. In summary, we are not there yet, so for now, we’ll keep our distance and put on our face masks. Meanwhile, almost the entire map of France turned orange again. Despite the rising number of infections in France, we have not been asked a single time for our European corona passport or a negative PCR test nor have we been stopped at the border to show our passenger locator form when we returned to Belgium late yesterday afternoon… Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, Normandy, France