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Netherlands to go into lockdown due to 'fifth wave with Omicron'
Updated On: 19 December, 2021 11:25 AM IST | The Hague | IANS
Only essential shops like supermarkets, medical contact professions and car garages remain open, but all other shops and all education, the catering industry, restaurants, museums, theaters and zoos must close
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The Dutch government has announced a stricter lockdown out of fear for the rise of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in the country. "I stand here with a gloomy mind," Prime Minister Mark Rutte said at a press conference on Saturday in the Hague. "The Netherlands is going into lockdown again."
"That is inevitable. Omicron is spreading even faster than we feared. That is the complicated story we have to tell tonight," Xinhua news agency quoted him as saying. The new lockdown will take effect from 5 a.m. Sunday morning local time and will remain in effect until January 14, 2022. According to Rutte, a hard lockdown is inevitable "because of the fifth wave that is approaching us with Omicron."
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