The Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander and his better half slice short a get-away to Greece on Friday in the wake of going under analysis for going during the Covid pandemic.

“We see the responses by individuals to reports in the media,” Willem-Alexander and his better half Queen Maxima said in an announcement distributed by the Royal House late on Friday.

“We wish to leave almost certainly that it’s important to follow the rules so as to get the COVID-19 infection leveled out. The conversation over our excursion isn’t adding to that.”

In spite of the fact that the lord’s excursion in Greece didn’t break any of the Netherlands’ lockdown rules, including new limitations presented for the current week in the midst of one of Europe’s greatest Covid episodes, the legislature has disheartened pointless travel.

“This is hasty and vast,” the cited legislator Joost Sneller of the D-66 gathering, one of the alliance accomplices in Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s overseeing alliance, as saying of the King’s excursion.

Rutte had asked the country in a broadcast address on Tuesday “not to test the limits of the principles.”

“You can take some time off, yet then go to where you’ve booked your house or lodging and don’t move around,” the head administrator said. “In the event that you do travel to another country – well your alternatives are restricted as there are barely any nations that need to have us any longer.”

Willem-Alexander, who has a private manor in southern Greece, gone by government stream.

The Netherlands revealed almost 8,000 new Covid cases on Friday, a record.

Willem-Alexander and his better half Queen Maxima gave an expression of remorse after a past excursion to Greece, in August, after a photograph was distributed giving them breaking social removing rules on the island of Milos.