first day of re-containment in the Netherlands

How are the Dutch living on their first day of re-containment? “There are a few people in the streets, (…) traffic in itself is not prohibited, you can go out, you can walk in the street, wearing a mask is not compulsory“, indicates the journalist Hugo Puffeney is in duplex from Amsterdam (Netherlands). The city”does not have its usual crowd“, he notes however. As evidenced by the Paris-Amsterdam train taken in the morning, almost empty.

Containment in effect until January 14

“There are not the hundreds, the thousands of tourists who usually stroll here in the city center.“, continues Hugo Puffeney. The journalist finally reports a discussion between a group of tourists and an inhabitant of Amsterdam, the second indicating to the first that the strict confinement was in effect from 5 am, and would be until January 14.