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. 2021 Jan 28;111:103889. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.103889

Table 1.

Most important Dutch COVID-19 measures March 9th until June 1 st 2020 (Rottinghuis, 2020).

09 March 2020 12 March 2020 15 March 2020 11 May 2020 01 June 2020
Shaking hands and hugging no longer allowed. Everyone (with the exception of people working in vital professional services) has to work from home and stay home as much as possible. Schools and childcare centers are closed (except for children of parents working in essential services). Elementary schools are opened again. People can meet each other if they keep 1,5 m distance.
All events with over 100 participants are prohibited. Restaurants, bars, sports clubs, sauna’s, sex clubs and coffeeshops are closed. It is still possible to order from takeaway restaurants or bars. Everyone can exercise outside. Sport competitions and the use of shared bathrooms are still prohibited. In all public accessible buildings up to 30 people are allowed to enter (for example, restaurants, bars, museums, theatres and cinemas)
Everyone with symptoms (fever, coughing or a cold) has to stay home. Social-distancing measures start. Everyone should keep 1.5 m distance from people from other households. Professions working in so called contact professions can start working again with adequate measures. For everyone above the age of 13, the use of a face mask in public transportation is mandatory.
Contact with older adults, physically vulnerable people and people with intellectual disabilities living in institutions is to be avoided.