After two years of crisis management in Belgium, the Federal Government has finally agreed on a "ventilation plan" for all places open to the public, such as bars, restaurants, cinemas, theatres and gyms, announced Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke.

The Government wants to carry one of the main lessons of the pandemic – the importance of healthy indoor air – into the future, not only in the fight against Covid-19, but also to avoid other respiratory diseases such as the flu.

"I am very happy that the Government has found an agreement for a legal framework that will require all publicly accessible places to continue to monitor their air quality," Vandenbroucke told De Morgen. "They must all have a CO2 meter."

That CO2 meter will have to be clearly visible to the public and may not be placed in the immediate vicinity of a door or window, Vandenbroucke announced in a press release on Monday.

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