30 ARRESTED AT ANTI-LOCKDOWN PROTEST

Around 30 people were arrested in Amsterdam when police dispersed a protest against coronavirus lockdown measures on Sunday, as authorities sought to prevent a repeat of riots that raged across Dutch cities for three days last week.

Police said they had sent home around 600 people who had flouted social-distancing rules and ignored a nationwide ban on public gatherings by assembling in Amsterdam’s central Museumplein on Sunday. There were no reports of violence.

The addition of a nighttime curfew to an already broad lockdown triggered last week’s violent demonstrations. Shops were looted in several cities and 500 people were arrested.

Meanwhile, primary schools in the Netherlands will reopen on Feb. 8, the government said on Sunday, in the first easing of lockdown measures in months.