The Netherlands has just gone into a month-long nationwide lockdown in response to the Omicron surge - December 19, 2021

[sharon sanders]

The Netherlands has just gone into a month-long nationwide lockdown in response to the Omicron surge

Shona Ghosh
Dec 19, 2021, 5:22 AM

The Netherlands entered a nationwide lockdown on Sunday, becoming the first EU country to reimpose stringent holiday restrictions in the face of surging Omicron cases.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte on Saturday announced that restaurants, bars, non-essential shops, beauty salons, and concert venues and cinemas would all close from Sunday.

Most indoor sports facilities will close, and supermarkets and chemists remain open on restricted hours. Schools and colleges will also close until January 9. Funerals are restricted to 100 attendees or fewer.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/netherlands-lockdown-christmas-as-omicron-cases-explode-2021-12

 

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https://nltimes.nl/2021/12/23/netherlands-remains-dark-red-eu-covid-map-sixth-week

For the sixth week in a row, the Netherlands is completely dark red on the map reflecting coronavirus cases in Europe. That is the highest warning level on the map, which is updated every Thursday by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The total number of positive coronavirus tests is falling, also in comparison to other countries, but that decrease has not been fast enough in any of the 12 provinces to step down to a lower warning level.
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The Danish capital of Copenhagen has become the area of greatest concern in Europe. More than 55,000 infections were detected there in the past two weeks, equivalent to almost 3,006 for every 100,000 inhabitants. That's a 48 percent increase from last week's data. The number of new cases is also rising rapidly in Oslo, Norway. Both countries have found a high number of infections caused by the new Omicron variant.