The trains are also packed. Some extra wagons are provided, but that could not prevent the fact that there was not always room for Flemings from the peripheral municipalities, who wanted to travel to Antwerp for a day. However, the Dutch Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge and Prime Minister Mark Rutte had already called on not to go to Belgium. Even the ironclad Antwerp governor Cathy Berx begged to stay away. It didn’t make much of an impression. None of them can forbid the Dutch from crossing the border any more — that time is over and luckily enough. Berx is disappointed: “Not social, solidarity or sensible.”
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