Corona Clanger! Dutch PM Takes To TV To Warn Citizens Not To Shake Hands & Promptly Shakes Hands!

Corona Clanger! Dutch PM Takes To TV To Warn Citizens Not To Shake Hands & Promptly Shakes Hands!

It’s now officially been declared a global pandemic but at least the Dutch prime minister is having a laugh in the face of COVID-19 adversity.

The leader of The Netherlands, Mark Rutte, took to TV on Tuesday night to tell the nation’s 17 million citizens that one of the best ways to avoid the coronavirus was to to stop shaking hands with anybody.

“From now on we stop shaking hands,” Rutte said during a news conference. “You can foot-tap or elbow-bump, or whatever you can come up with… but from today on we are going to stop shaking hands.”

However, the poor PM soon forgot his own advice when the head of Dutch Centre for Infectious Disease Control, Jaap van Dissel, took to the stage for an update only for Rutte to vigorously shake his hand.

Fortuitously, both men saw the funny side and B&T understands neither Rutte or van Dissel is currently quarantined in a basement somewhere. Check it out the clanger below:

 

 

 

 




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