The EU pointed out that scientific evidence shows that increased vaccinations would contain the crisis and avoid more deaths. In riots across the country, youths threw fireworks at police officers. The Dutch violence came a week into a new partial lockdown in the Netherlands and after an announcement that the government was banning fireworks on New YearвЂ™s Eve in an effort to ease the strain on hospital emergency rooms. The protests come as a fourth wave of infections is locking down Austrians and forcing renewed restraints in many European nations on anything from working in the office to drinking at bars. Please, let us not get incited by a small group which would turn it into a fight against one another,вЂќ Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said. вЂњOur goal today is to fight against the virus. Scenes were ugly too at the end of the Brussels protest march, with rioters pelting police, who then used tear gas and water cannons to break up the crowds. But he stressed the rioters were something completely different, producing вЂњa pure explosion of violence directed against our police, against our firefighters, against ambulance drivers.вЂќ вЂњI realize that there are a lot of tensions in society because we have been dealing with all the misery of coronavirus for so long,вЂќ Rutte said.

Altogether in both countries almost 100 people were detained.

Late Friday, police in Rotterdam even used live fire to disperse rioters gone amok, and four people suffered gunshot wounds. Rutte condemned rioters in Rotterdam and across the Netherlands after coronavirus protests there and in Brussels descended into violence amid simmering anger at lockdown measures being put into place in an attempt to rein in soaring rates of infection. вЂњBut now we are facing a pandemic mainly driven by the unvaccinated,вЂќ Kyriakides said.Д«reakthrough infections and deaths among the vaccinated happen, though at far lower rates, according to officials.

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