Amsterdam During The Lockdown

Daily life in the Nieuwendijk shopping street in central Amsterdam with more thane 200 shops while people pass in front of the closed stores and some women are spotted to watch the displays. Locals and a few tourists at the quiet streets of Amsterdam during the lockdown in the Dutch capital city with stores and shops appearing with closed with the roller metal shutter down, cafes, bars and restaurants also closed with tables and chairs of the terraces locked. The Netherlands was the first European nation to declare full lockdown to fight the new Omicron variant that surges. After a sudden government order before Christmas, the country closed all the nonessential shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, gyms, schools, sports venues, cultural places and others for 4 weeks in order to fight and prevent the spread of the Omicron mutation of Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic until at least January 14. Amsterdam, the Netherlands on January 5, 2022 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)