Dutch prime minister extends his country’s pandemic lockdown
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday extended the country’s tough coronavirus lockdown until the end of the month, but he added a note of hope to his message to a pandemic-weary nation by predicting that a “tipping point is coming when the vaccine gains the upper hand over the virus and more will be possible.”
Rutte was speaking a week before a parliamentary election in the Netherlands at which he is seeking a fourth term that could make him the longest-serving Dutch leader.