Sjaak de Gouw, director of public health at the GGD, does not expect the cabinet to announce stricter measures today. Tonight, Prime Minister Rutte will give a press conference with health minister De Jonge, in which at least an extension of the current measures that will apply until 6 April will be announced.
But De Gouw does not expect any tightening of those measures. “Because the difference with what some call a lockdown is still very small,” he said NOS With a view to Tomorrow. “In Spain, for example, everyone is allowed to go outside for a maximum of one hour to exercise. We can only go outside when it is necessary, but it boils down to the same thing. The measures as taken in different countries are essentially no different from each other.”
It is still unclear until exactly when the measures will be extended. Insiders expect a date by the end of April or early May. De Gouw does not rule that out. “Because that has a few reasons. You are then around the May holidays, and then that is a moment for the schools to open again after that. And it also has to do with the holiday troubles of the Dutch. In other words: what are going on? they do and don’t do in the May holidays. “
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