Dutch Covid Curfew Extended, Exceptions For Vote: PM
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published March 09, 2021 | 01:20 AM
The Hague, March 8 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Mar, 2021 ) :The Netherlands will extend its controversial coronavirus curfew until March 31 with exceptions for a general election next week, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Monday.
Four days of riots broke out when the overnight curfew, the first in the Netherlands since the Nazi occupation during World War II, was introduced on January 23.
The 9:00 pm to 4:30 am curfew had been due to end on March 15 but "now continues until the morning of Wednesday the 31st," Rutte told a press conference.
"A few exceptions apply for the three days of the elections" from March 15 to 17 "because curfews cannot and must not stand in the way of free elections", he added.
Anyone who could not vote before the start of the curfew at 9:00 pm "can simply do that without hindrance and go home", said Rutte.
Election workers and volunteers needed written proof from local councils.
Restaurants, bars and cannabis coffee shops will remain takeaway only, as they have done since October, said Rutte. But other restrictions will be slightly relaxed, including more customers allowed in large shops.
Schools have already reopened in recent weeks.
A Dutch appeals court upheld the coronavirus curfew in February after a lower court ruled that it was illegal and should immediately be lifted.
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