{"id":11332,"date":"2021-09-06T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T04:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11332"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T04:17:53","slug":"thousands-protest-in-amsterdam-over-covid-19-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11332","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest in Amsterdam over COVID-19 restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AMSTERDAM, Sept 6\u00a0 &#8212; Thousands of people took to the streets of Amsterdam yesterday to voice frustrations and to protest against the COVID-19 restrictions in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the requests from the Amsterdam mayor\u2019s office to disperse, the crowd continued to\u00a0swell, with the protesters gathering at the city\u2019s Dam Square as early as 9:00 GMT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protesters marched 7 kilometers\u00a0through the city, finishing at the Dam Square at 13:00 GMT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-12.13.51.png\" alt=\"amsterdam\" class=\"wp-image-11333\" width=\"508\" height=\"315\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The event\u2019s organizer\u00a0Michel Reijinga was responsible for similar protests against COVID-19 restrictions in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Dutch public broadcaster NOS, citing the activist, about 60 groups took part in the march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, the Netherlands announced that starting Sept\u00a020, a COVID-19 entry pass system will be used at restaurants, bars, cafes, events, and cultural venues where more than 75 people are present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\">NMT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMSTERDAM, Sept 6\u00a0 &#8212; Thousands of people took to the streets of Amsterdam yesterday to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7574,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsium-slider-full":"","newsium-featured":"","newsium-medium":""},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=7574\" rel=\"category\">COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11334,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions\/11334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}