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The virus reached the Netherlands on 27 February 2020, when its first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Tilburg. [5] It involved a 56-year-old Dutchman who had arrived in the Netherlands from Italy. The virus was confirmed to have reached Europe on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 case was identified in Bordeaux - France.
150 people were arrested during the night from 25 to 26 January in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Shops were looted and vandalized. The cities of Den Bosch, Zwolle, Amersfoort, Alkmaar, Hoorn, Gouda, Haarlem, and Veenendaal experienced troubles, including cars being burned and police attacked with stones.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands, various measures were taken by the government. On the advice of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT) set up by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), many successive decisions were taken in a short period of time. The first preventive measures came into effect on ...
Non-violent protests against the government's COVID-19 prevention measures had taken place on several occasions prior to the announcement of the curfew. However, on 24 January 2021, illegal demonstrations against the curfew in Amsterdam and Eindhoven escalated into violent riots in response to police interventions.
All arriving passengers on international flights whose body temperature is NOT above 37.5 °C (99.5 °F); do NOT have a persistent cough, difficulty in breathing or other flu-like symptoms; have negative PCR based COVID – 19 test carried out within 96 hours before travel and are from countries considered low to medium risk COVID – 19 ...
The Government of Rotterdam is the government of the municipality and city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Most of the inhabitants live in the city of Rotterdam, but the municipality also covers a number of small villages, and other parts of the local government, such as Rozenburg , cover an even larger area.
The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area (Dutch: Metropoolregio Rotterdam Den Haag) [2] is a metropolitan area encompassing the cities of Rotterdam and The Hague as well as 21 other municipalities. [3] It was founded in 2014. The area has a population of approximately 2.7 million across 1,130 km 2 (440 sq mi). [1]
Rotterdam (/ ˈ r ɒ t ər d æ m / ROT-ər-dam, UK also / ˌ r ɒ t ər ˈ d æ m / ROT-ər-DAM; [8] [9] Dutch: [ˌrɔtərˈdɑm] ⓘ; lit. ' The Dam on the River Rotte ') is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.