For the first time since the outbreak of the corona virus in the Netherlands, the cabinet has one roadmap presented. This shows which measures belong to the different contamination levels in society. The cabinet distinguishes four different levels: true, worrisome, serious and very serious. As a last resort, there is complete lockdown. Only with the lowest level of infections is it allowed for concert halls to admit more than 60 visitors. Surprisingly enough, this is stricter than the rules that applied since 1 July, namely that concert halls, provided they allow the audience to sit and keep their distance, did not have a limit in the maximum capacity.
As leaked on Monday, the exemptions for cultural institutions will be lifted. A week ago, the cabinet decided that the security regions can make exceptions to the rule that a maximum of 30 people may be present per room. Music venues such as Paradiso, Melkweg, 013 and TivoliVredenburg received such an exception from their mayor. According to Prime Minister Rutte, the number of infections is now too high, and the large number of exceptions is also not good for support. That is why the same restriction now applies to concert halls as to other spaces.
If we look at the road map, we see that the number of visitors should only increase slightly when we are two levels down, to ‘worrying’. At that level, 60 people inside and 80 people outside are allowed to come together. If the level is ‘vigilant’ (the virus is still there, but the number of infections is low), the restriction is lifted, of course with a distance of 1.5 meters. In mid-September in the Netherlands, the level rose from vigilant to worrisome, a week ago we crossed the line to serious.
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