A five-week lockdown will come into effect this week in the Netherlands in an attempt to limit the expansion of Covid-19, Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced Monday, December 14.
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The Netherlands will close for five weeks,
" Rutte said in a televised address from the seat of government in The Hague, in front of which were gathered protesters.