'Bring back social distancing instead of new rules for the unvaccinated'
The government should enforce existing coronavirus rules and bring back social distancing rather than bring in extra restrictions for people who have not been vaccinated, a member of the government’s outbreak management team has told Nieuwsuur. Marc Bonten said specific rules for unvaccinated people would be hard to enforce, partly because there are no central records of where they live. The epidemic is increasingly an epidemic of the unvaccinated.’ Bonten said the focus on unvaccinated people was understandable, but questioned whether separate rules would work in practice and called for stricter checks on QR codes at indoor venues, as well as a return to the basic rules such as social distancing and working from home. ‘We’ve heard that an analysis has been done of how the unvaccinated population is spread out, particularly in the Randstad conurbation, and how we should organise measures for those people, but it’s a real challenge.
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