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By Reuters Staff
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AMSTERDAM/PARIS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The Dutch government said on Friday it could soften its demands for returning air crews to carry out rapid COVID-19 tests, after airline KLM moved to cancel its long-haul operations and warned that the shutdown could affect vaccine distribution.
As part of stricter coronavirus measures announced on Wednesday, the government said it will also require all arriving passengers and crew to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 rapid test, taken just before departure. It had already required a negative test taken within 72 hours of travel.
The Dutch carrier, part of airline group Air France-KLM , had announced on Thursday that it would cancel its remaining 270 weekly long-haul flights starting from Friday in response to the new restrictions.