On Friday the government said universities and vocational schools would also reopen and announced a shorter quarantine period after an exposure and an expansion of the use of masks. 10 after a longer-than-planned winter holiday, but have been plagued by frequent class dismissals due to illness or exposure of teachers or students.

Your health and the health of your fellow travellers remains the most important thing for us. Schiphol follows the national and international developments of the coronavirus closely. Primary and secondary schools reopened on Jan. The information you read here may be outdated. Rutte said he viewed the actions as one-off protests and had talked to municipal authorities about enforcing the new rules after this weekend. The Netherlands underwent only a relatively short lockdown (8 wk) and features an equitable system of school funding and the worlds highest rate of broadband. In the southern city of Valkenburg, restaurants opened on Friday in defiance of the rules and with support from the city's mayor, and 15 other municipalities said they would follow suit on Saturday. More than 86% of Dutch adults are fully vaccinated and nearly 50% received a booster shot in a major campaign during the lockdown. 11.Ī poll by Hart van Nederland published on Friday found that 89% of people supported reopening stores and a majority also support reopening restaurants and cultural institutions.

Infections have continued to rise despite the lockdown, which bans all public gatherings, with a record of more than 200,000 in the week through Jan. On Friday the Netherlands Institute for Health (RIVM) announced a record high of more than 35,000 infections in 24 hours. Latest on coronavirus as the UK reports 40,375 daily cases and 145 deaths England's R number is estimated at between 0.8 and 1.0 - down from between 0.9 and 1.1 last week Netherlands 'to impose. Rutte's government ordered the lockdown in mid-December as a wave of the Delta variant forced the health system to cancel all but the most urgent care and it appeared rising Omicron cases would overwhelm it.

Lockdowns are very hard on everyone and keeping everything closed is also bad for our health,' Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said. This removed the obligation to report infections and stops the possibility of introducing legal restrictions to control the spread. On June 16, 2023, the Dutch government downgraded COVID-19 from A-Status. 'We are taking a calculated risk because we have to. Goodbye and good riddance While COVID-19 still exists, cases in the Netherlands have dropped significantly. Earlier on Friday restaurants in one Dutch city reopened on and others said they would open on Saturday regardless of government plans as popular support for the month-long lockdown evaporates despite the strain on hospitals and record new infections.

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