Sporting events in the Netherlands will have to take place without fans until there is a coronavirus vaccine, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge says.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte this week said that organised sport could resume from 1 September.
But De Jonge said mass gatherings would be barred until a vaccine is developed.
“We cannot yet mention a date for the last step, the mass gatherings,” he wrote in a letter to the Dutch parliament.
“That is actually only possible if there is a vaccine and no one knows how long it will take.
“We hope of course soon, but a year or more is very real.”
Covid-19 has infected more than 41,000 people in the Netherlands and caused 5,288 deaths.
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