The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) explains. If you have been to places where more and more corona infections are appearing, such as in Barcelona, Paris, Antwerp, Marseille or Ibiza, you are urgently requested to go into home quarantine for 14 days when you return to the Netherlands.
This is to prevent travelers who are infected there from spreading the virus further in the Netherlands.
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When code orange?
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued an orange travel advice for a country such as:
- There is an increased number of infections, with the risk that the Dutch will contract the virus and take it back home
- A country has issued entry restrictions for Dutch citizens
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At the same time, the number of corona infections is also increasing in more and more places in the Netherlands, for example in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. But clusters are also emerging in other places in the Netherlands where the number of corona infections peaks.
If you compare some of those Dutch places with places for which an orange travel advice applies, for example Antwerp, the number of infections in Dutch places is on average higher per 100,000 inhabitants. Still, you don’t have to stay inside for 14 days if you’ve been to Amsterdam, while you should if you’ve been to Antwerp. Why not even quarantined after a visit to Amsterdam?
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That question is quite logical, says Harald Wychgel of the RIVM. But the answer too. “Quarantine is started if not all movements of an infected person can be properly mapped out. Abroad, it is difficult to say exactly where someone has been and with whom he or she has been in contact. That is fine in the Netherlands. If someone here is infected with corona, a source and contact investigation will follow. This investigation, together with testing, ensures that quarantine is not required as standard. “
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