Prime Minister Rutte did not have much prospects in the short term for the hospitality industry. The number of IC admissions must first be significantly reduced, he said. “Then something can be done again, for example with restaurants. Cafés are really something different, because there you are a bit closer to each other, especially when you have finished a drink.”
Top athletes did receive good news: from 17 December they will be allowed to train and play matches again in the national top sports competitions. According to the cabinet, competition is important for them to keep up with the international top.
It concerns about 6000 top athletes from fields such as hockey, basketball, water polo and volleyball. The 1.5 meter does not apply during sports. Top athletes are also allowed to play sports with more than four people and be with more than thirty people in one room.
Less doses
Minister De Jonge says that the vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech will probably be delivered a little later, and that it will also be much less in the first instance. The minister assumed that the pharmaceutical company could deliver one million doses by the end of December. But now it is expected that there will be half a million, which will be delivered in early January. A further 1.7 million doses will follow in the first quarter of 2021.
Nursing home care workers are the first to receive a call to be vaccinated. Employees from nursing homes are followed by employees from care for the disabled and home care. They too are offered the vaccine from BioNTech / Pfizer.
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