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The Netherlands will go into a new lockdown from Sunday morning to try to limit Covid-19 infections because of the Omicron coronavirus variant, prime minister Mark Rutte said on Saturday.
“The Netherlands is again shutting down. That is unavoidable because of the fifth wave that is coming at us with the Omicron variant,” Mr Rutte told a news conference.
The government met on Saturday with its health experts who have recommended the closure of all non-essential shops, schools, bars, restaurants and other public venues.
In the city centre of Leiden some 20km outside of The Hague, people flocked to the main shopping street to get last-minute gift shopping done.
Some shops, such as toy stores and luxury skin care and cosmetics shops, had lines outside.
“It’s normally busy before Christmas but this much busier than usual,” Ali Windster, the manager of a cosmetics shop, told Reuters.
Carla Nekeman was at the counter stocking up on cosmetics.
“This lockdown sucks, I am getting a lot of the stuff I need that I can’t get in the supermarket. I’ll have to stand in line everywhere,” Ms Nekeman said.
Already on Tuesday the government ordered that the 5pm-5am closure of bars, restaurants and most stores, introduced in late November, would continue until January 14th.
Mr Rutte said then that Omicron could be the dominant Covid-19 variant in the Netherlands by January.
On Friday, the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) reported 15,433 new Covid-19 cases, down about 25 per cent from a week earlier – but still above the peak of any previous wave.
The feared new wave of Omicron infections would further burden the country’s strained healthcare system which is already postponing most routine care and cancelling all but urgent operations in order to cope with Covid-19 patients. – Reuters