Rutte on foreign travel and the summer holidays: ‘Good hope that more will be possible then’
At the press conference about the coronavirus, caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte addressed travel abroad. Caretaker minister Hugo de Jonge then responded to questions about the promised quarantine requirement.
The extension of the negative advisory confirmed
First Rutte confirms the extension of the negative travel advisory ‘up to and including Saturday 15 May’. “Because of the international situation we have no choice but to extend the current advisory”, the prime minister says.
- “So the urgent advice for the May holidays is: stay in the Netherlands. Do not travel abroad.”
Travel abroad and the summer holidays
Rutte does not want to look further ahead yet. “For the summer holidays we cannot give advice yet; that will follow as soon as possible.”
Which makes perspective seem absent for now. Or perhaps not? Rutte goes on: “But we do have good hope that more will be possible then.”
“And that matters. For the people who want to go on holiday. But also for the whole travel industry, which is ready to give us a carefree time. Something we could all do with.”
Quarantine for incoming travellers delayed further
“We are looking at the quarantine requirement for travellers”, De Jonge says. “So people coming into the Netherlands.”
“Including people who have just been on holiday. They can count on a quarantine requirement.”
The repeatedly announced quarantine requirement for incoming travellers turns out to be delayed further still. In February the press already sounded frankly astonished that it would only be arranged ‘in March’. It is not getting any better.
- “We hope in the first half of May”, the caretaker minister replies to the question of when the quarantine requirement takes effect.
The corona passport
Meanwhile every effort is going into getting the corona passport off the ground. This ‘digital green certificate’ is meant to make travel within Europe possible again.
The corona passport is the worked-out form of the previously proposed vaccination passport.
Vaccination turns out, in the plans , not to be a condition of the new corona passport. If you have a negative test result or have recovered from COVID-19, you are also classified ‘green’.
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