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Belgium has begun testing more than 210,000 residents and staff at nursing homes, which account for about half of the country’s coronavirus-related deaths, Reuters reports.
Belgium is one of only a few countries in Europe that includes all non-hospitalised people who displayed symptoms of the disease in its daily tally of Covid-19 deaths, even if they had not been confirmed as having had it.
The public health agency in Sweden has reported another 130 deaths from coronavirus, fewer than the day before, bringing the total death toll in the country to 1,333.
So far the country has recorded 12,540 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Of those, 996 are in intensive care, the public health agency said.