This is not known yet. EU health ministers agreed last week to review whether the measures are necessary on a weekly basis. Voss doesn’t think it makes sense to maintain this measure for so long.

“A viral mutation could also come our way from Italy, France or Germany. Of course, it is more likely to come here from China, due to the corona wave and the large population, but you cannot prevent it.”

Perhaps the Netherlands and other EU countries first want to make sure that the Corona situation in China is under control. Koopmans predicted in a conversation with NU.nl that the corona wave that China is experiencing now will be less bad than the first wave in the Netherlands in 2020.