Court throws out bid to ban 'discriminatory' coronavirus pass system
Dutch NewsA court has rejected a bid to strike out the coronavirus pass system in the Netherlands for being ‘criminal and discriminatory’. Lawyer Bart Maes asked the district court in The Hague to order the government to revoke the measure because it treats unvaccinated people differently without good reason. ‘It has not been proved that this is a case of a difference in treatment without objective or reasonable legal justification.’ The judge said the state was entitled to base its policy on the opinion of the Outbreak Management Team that unvaccinated people carried a greater risk of transmitting the virus. ‘The so-called “test for entry” has a legitimate purpose of limiting the spread of the virus.’ The new rules, which replaced the 1.5 metre social distancing rule, requires everyone over the age of 12 to produce a QR code showing they have either been fully vaccinated, tested negative for coronavirus in the last 24 hours or recovered from an infection in the last six months.
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