Den Haag: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will announce the new Covid-19 restrictions, reportedly included “partial locking” in Western Europe in winter, because cases score a record level.
Three weeks are planned steps, with bars, restaurants and non-essential shops must be closed at 19:00 and people are more advised to work from home, local media said.
Public events will be removed while soccer matches including the Dutch World Cup qualifier with Norway next week must be played behind the closed door, they said.
But the school will be rumored to remain open, and people will be allowed to leave their homes without limitation.
Minister of Rutte and Hugo De Jonge’s health will hold a press conference at 7:00 p.m.
(1800 GMT) to announce the sidewalk, with the RTL broadcasters report that the cabinet describes it as a “partial locking” to “quickly reduce the case”.
The government is also reported to limit the “covid pass” to catering and entertainment after a three-week period, so it can only be used by people who are vaccinated or have recovered from Covid, and not by people who have just had a negative test.
Meanwhile the official arrival of Sinterklaas – The Dutch Santa Claus – scheduled on Saturday in the historic Central City Utrecht has been canceled due to a surge in the case.
But the restrictions on freshly sensitive politically, with thousands of rally in the Hague last week after the government on November 2 said it introduced a face mask in several public spaces.
The Netherlands on Thursday reported 16,364 new Covid cases for 24 hours earlier, destroying the previous record of 12,997 sets last December.
The nation of 17 million people has reported 2.2 million cases and 18,612 death since the start of Las Year Pandemic.
The hospital has warned they will not be able to get through winter under current conditions.
The Covid surge came apart from the fact that 82 percent of Dutch people over 12 years were fully vaccinated.
People who are not vaccinated contribute to the most intensive care cases (69 percent) and hospital admissions (55 percent), but the efficiency of vaccines decreases, especially in parents, has also been blamed for a surge.
The Dutch government said it would start giving Jab Booster in December.
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