Insiders confirm notification about this from the Telegraph. The decision is not yet final because the caretaker cabinet is still meeting on it today. Tonight, Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge will give a press conference.
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Zaterdg has already leaked that they are not going to announce any real easing. At the most, it concerns minor adjustments.
Code orange
A negative travel advice was already issued for most countries in November. Only for the Caribbean part of the kingdom this did not apply at that time. From mid-December, the cabinet set all countries in the world to ‘code orange’. That negative travel advice would last until mid-March, but it is now being extended.
However, Rutte would like to indicate tonight that – if the number of corona infections improves – more can be done during the May holidays and certainly in the summer. De Jonge and the RIVM expect that every adult in the Netherlands can be vaccinated at the beginning of July, at least with one shot. According to them, that already gives much more perspective on all kinds of freedoms.
Extend curfew
The curfew and hard lockdown would run until March 15 after previous extensions, but this will most likely be extended through March 30. Insiders said this yesterday after the Catshuis meeting, in which part of the cabinet was brought up to date by experts.
The week before, it will be decided whether this is the end date of the curfew and which relaxations are possible or not.
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