Coronavirus curfew was an ideal move
A Dutch appeals courtroom said on Friday the government had been to impose a night time curfew in the fight against the coronavirus, overturning a lower court's buy which had caused confusion over the measure the other day.
In a clear victory for the federal government, the appeals court said it had rightfully used urgent powers to install the curfew, the first in the Netherlands since World War Two, and had adequately proved that the measure was essential to rein in the pandemic.
The district court in The Hague the other day had ruled that the federal government had failed to explain why emergency powers were needed at this time of the pandemic, siding with anti-lockdown activists who had brought the case.
Friday's ruling had little practical implications, seeing that the government the other day circumvented the order to scrap the curfew by rushing found in a fresh law which gave it a sounder legal footing. It also prolonged the 9 p.m.-4.30 a.m. curfew by at least three weeks, to March 15, as specialists warned of an imminent latest wave of infections.
The curfew sparked several times of rioting by anti-lockdown protesters when it was introduced on Jan. 23. It really is portion of a lockdown where bars, eating places and non-essential shops have already been closed for a few months.New coronavirus infections in holland jumped around 20% on the week through Tuesday, data showed, as the total number of verified cases since the start of pandemic surpassed a million earlier this month.
