The Netherlands will reintroduce several of the country's corona restrictions, Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among other things, there will once again be a requirement for face masks in public places and an expansion of the requirement for a Covid passport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reason is that the number of infected people has increased sharply in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday, the Dutch equivalent of the Public Health Agency reported that it had noted a 39 percent increase in the number of infected people since last week. The number of hospitalizations had increased by 31 percent during the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
"No one will be surprised that we have a difficult message to give tonight," Rutte said at a televised press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 It's troublesome because unfortunately we are forced to ask more of people now that the number of infected people and the number of people hospitalized is rapidly increasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The requirement for at least one and a half meters of distance between people is also being reintroduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rutte also urges people to try to work from home for at least half of their working hours and avoid public transport during rush hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the beginning of the pandemic, almost 18,500 people in the Netherlands \u2013 which has a population of just over 17 million \u2013 have died with Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source: svt.se<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nederl\u00e4nderna kommer att \u00e5terinf\u00f6ra flera av landets coronarestriktioner, meddelar premi\u00e4rminister Mark Rutte. Bland annat kommer det \u00e5terigen bli krav p\u00e5 munskydd p\u00e5 offentliga platser och en ut\u00f6kning av krav p\u00e5 covid-pass. Orsaken \u00e4r att antalet smittade har \u00f6kat kraftigt de senaste veckorna. Under tisdagen rapporterade Nederl\u00e4ndernas motsvarighet till Folkh\u00e4lsomyndigheten att man noterat en 39-procentig \u00f6kning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[422,3331,155],"class_list":["post-238680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turism","tag-covid","tag-nederlanderna","tag-turism"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n