The two ministers announced new corona measures on Friday due to the strongly increased infection figures. At the same time, they dismissed criticism that the cabinet had relaxed too quickly in June. They stayed with it that with the knowledge and the low infection rates at the time, the choices were justified.
Today, De Jonge said that the cabinet has indeed learned something. “In unfamiliar territory, we often have to err on the side of caution.”
The cabinet has also become wiser in the field of access tests, said De Jonge. “That has been tested in a controlled environment, but it has been applied in an uncontrolled environment.” Many of the infections have recently taken place in the catering industry.
genie in the bottle
De Jonge also called the fact that tickets for, for example, nightclubs were available immediately after one shot with the Janssen vaccine or immediately after a second shot of Pfizer or Moderna. You now have to wait two weeks after complete vaccination to receive an admission ticket.
Rutte assumes that the genie can be put back in the bottle and that the corona figures will fall. “The Netherlands is a sensible country.”
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