That’s what Marijn van Dijke of the Koninklijke Horeca Nederland, Breda region, says. Since last Saturday, catering establishments have been obliged to check whether their visitors have been vaccinated, tested or cured.
20,000 visitors
Upon entry, a QR code must be scanned into the CoronaCheck app. In Breda, on a Saturday evening, normally about 20,000 people come out for a drink.
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“A few weeks ago we sat down with the municipality with the question: how can we do this as well as possible?”, says Van Dijke. “Only last week did we take the plunge to work with a wristband system.”
Checkpoints
It went like this, he explains. “We set up so-called checkpoints at various places where you enter the center of Breda. There people could have their QR code scanned and they received a wristband, with which they could then enter all catering establishments. It worked like a train.”
It is not clear how many wristbands were issued on Saturday, but according to Van Dijke it concerns thousands. “NAC also played on Saturday, and people who went to the game also received such a wristband in the stadium, so they could go straight into the pub.”
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Other cities
Other places in the Netherlands were also working with a wristband this weekend. In Someren, where it was a funfair this weekend, visitors could have their QR code scanned at various cafes, after which they got a wristband. They could then also go to other pubs.
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And other cities are also enthusiastic. For example, Den Bosch and Eindhoven would also like to start working with a wristband system from next weekend. “The telephone is red-hot from other cities that also want this and are curious how we have tackled it,” says Van Dijke.
“This works particularly well for the pub hoppers. It’s almost like entering a kind of festival site. You have the QR code scanned once, you get a wristband and from that moment on you can just do your thing.”
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