COVID: travel ban exemptions for business travellers, students, highly-skilled migrants, professionals from the cultural and creative sectors and people in long-distance romantic relationships CANCELLED
The Dutch government has decided to cancel the travel ban exemptions for business travellers, students, highly-skilled migrants, professionals from the cultural and creative sectors and people in long-distance romantic relationships. These measures will take effect on Saturday 23 January 2021 at 00.01. Lockdown measures tightened in response to concerns about new variants of virus News item | 20-01-2021 | 19:36 The government is gravely concerned about the UK variant of coronavirus, which is even more infectious than the virus we are familiar with in the Netherlands. There are also other variants of the virus that are sparking concern. New measures are needed in order to get these new variants under control. To that end, the government plans to introduce a curfew within a few days once the measure has been approved by parliament. The government is also issuing stricter advice on visitor numbers: receive no more than one visitor aged 13 or older per day, a...