The Netherlands has decided Saturday a strict containment to stem Omicron’s spread: so-called non-essential shops and recreation locations will remain closed doors until 14 January, and schools will be closed until January 9th.
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The border towns of the Netherlands were invaded by the Dutch, Sunday, December 19, while the day before, Prime Minister Mark Rutte had announced a new almost general containment plan.
Individuals, museums, gyms, cinemas, hair salons, will remain closed doors until 14 January at least, before a new evaluation. Schools will also be closed until January 9, before extension. Christmas markets also had to be hara-kiri.
Telework will be strengthened, the limited home visits to two people with a small exception (four people) for Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The whole thing to try to stem the progression of the Omicron variant: the contaminations that It causes dubble every two days and, in Amsterdam, 50% of infections will be due to Omicron from Tuesday, December 21, provide for the experts.
“Everything is closed at home, then we come to do our shopping, since the Belgians apparently believe that the virus does not pass the border!”, Clear, Sunday, Midi, Jaap and Jacqueline. Sitting at a heated terrace facing the cathedral of Antwerp, this couple of fifties of Breda prefers to laugh at this new total absence of European coordination. Belgium, it will apparently decide before Wednesday and a new confinement is not on the agenda, affirm the authorities. This Sunday, the streets of Antwerp were black world for the last weekend of shopping before Christmas.
Morose, another Dutch hooked wondered: “We do not know if our government really wants to avoid the worst, or if it decides to close everything because it took too much delay, especially for the third Dose of vaccine, explains Frans Willaert, a trader from Eindhoven. We do not understand anything, in fact. For how to explain that traveling abroad are, they still allowed? “
confusion in the opinion
The dark mine, the Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, had drained 6.9 million viewers – a record – Saturday night to announce that, according to him, his country could not “wait”. And that in the face of the rapid progression of the variant, which probably plunged the Netherlands into the “most difficult period” of the pandemic, it was necessary to act quickly. The unusual presence, next to the head of government, Jaap van Dissel, Infectiologist and President of the Epidemic Management Team (UNWTO), which advises the Executive, aimed to support the idea that “guys, Listen, it’s serious, “As Mr. Rutte said.
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