Students of the Vindicat association, who were on skiing holidays in a coronavirus risk area in Sestriere in Italy, get off a bus after returning to Groningen, Netherlands March 7, 2020, one day earlier than planned. REUTERS/ Piroschka Van De Wouw
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A group of 900 Dutch college students who took a ski trip to northern Italy despite Europe's worst outbreak of coronavirus there returned home by bus on Saturday, facing an outcry on social media.
The Vindicat fraternity's trip did not violate Dutch health or travel guidelines, but they returned home a day early amid concern from the public and questions by members of parliament.
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