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In this live blog, we kept you informed on Monday about all events surrounding the corona crisis in Brabant.
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The main topics:
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- Thirteen corona patients are currently admitted to hospitals in Brabant.
- The corona crisis is causing an influx of holiday homes for sale in the Netherlands.
- The increase in the number of corona infections in Belgium is ‘worrying’.
- Read all the news about the coronavirus on our topic site.
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This live blog is closed.
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20.57
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has changed the travel advice for Barcelona and its suburbs from code yellow to orange. People are advised to travel to this area only when absolutely necessary. Travelers who are now in Barcelona or in one of the suburbs are advised to quarantine for 14 days after returning home.
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20.10
Four people from West Brabant got the wrong result from their corona test after a visit on the test street at the NAC stadium in Breda. Two people were found to be infected with corona, while the laboratory result indicated that they were not infected.
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Two other people were the other way around: they turned out not to be infected, even though they had been told they had the virus. The GGD and the Microvida laboratory say they regret the mistakes.
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19.39
The Cabinet cannot decide in the short term to impose a facemask obligation in public spaces. That is what three experts in constitutional and administrative law say to NRC. The measures to combat the coronavirus are currently being included in emergency regulations and are not suitable for long-term restrictions on fundamental rights, says professor of law and society Jan Brouwer (University of Groningen). According to him, this applies to a mouth mask obligation.
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18.08
The number of people who are in intensive care with corona is currently 21, reports the National Coordination Center for Patient Distribution (LCPS). That is five patients more than Sunday. There are 542 people in the IC departments for other reasons. That is 26 less than the previous day. The total IC occupation is therefore 563.
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The number of people who were admitted because of corona but not on an IC is seventy, three more than Sunday. Chairman of the National Network Acute Care Ernst Kuipers: “The number of COVID patients in hospitals remains stable at a low level. The overall IC occupancy is also low.”
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17.07
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) is required by the court to reassess the corona protocols of the slaughterhouses that are not allowed to perform ritual slaughter during the sacrificial feast next weekend. The slaughterhouses have won summary proceedings on this. The NVWA prohibited the slaughterhouses from slaughtering lambs for the sacrificial feast, because their plan to comply with the corona rules during the sacrificial feast would be inadequate. The NVWA wants a safe working environment for medical doctors who supervise slaughter without stunning.
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14.15
The municipality of Baarle-Nassau wants everyone who enters a shop in the village wears a mask. In Belgian stores in Baarle-Hertog, the wearing of a face mask has been mandatory since last weekend. To avoid unclear situations in the enclave village, the municipality now comes with this advice.
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ALSO READ: Face masks in all shops in Baarle-Nassau, if it is up to the municipality
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14.14
“Very recognizable”, Michel van Erp of the NU’91 union calls the image that the care personnel deployed during the corona crisis are overtired. “They are traumatized. A second wave would be a major problem. ”
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ALSO READ: Union NU’91: ‘The healthcare staff is traumatized, they cannot yet handle the second wave’
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13.52
Because it is getting busier in the city, Amsterdam is adapting the traffic situation in a number of places to create more space. For example, cars, mopeds and mopeds are no longer welcome in certain places to make it easier for pedestrians and cyclists to keep a sufficient distance.
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According to the municipality, it is especially challenging in the often narrow streets in the city center to keep a meter and a half away.
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13.44
Last weekend, the Antwerp police closed 34 catering establishments, including five shisha bars, because they did not comply with measures to prevent the spread of the corona virus. In particular, the rule that employees must wear face masks was violated. The police checked more than 550 cases.
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Antwerp has stepped up enforcement because of the rapidly growing number of corona infections. Everyone in the city has to wear a face mask since Monday, so that it can be put on in busy places.
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13.36
In Rotterdam, there is an outbreak of the coronavirus among students. According to the GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond, this concerns a group of ten to twenty people, but because source and contact research is still being conducted, the GGD expects the number of infections to increase considerably.
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“The students who have tested positive for the virus indicate that they have had close contacts and have been to various social meetings. We expect that more will definitely come out,” said a GGD spokesperson.
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The Rotterdam region is currently a frontrunner in the Netherlands when it comes to the number of new corona infections. The GGD does not have an explanation for this. The GGD, the municipality of Rotterdam and the Rotterdam-Rijnmond Safety Region will discuss the situation in the region on Monday.
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12.00
Thirteen corona patients are currently admitted to hospitals in Brabant. That’s two less than a week ago. Of the thirteen patients, five are in intensive care, two more than a week ago, a spokesman for the Regional Consultation Acute Care (ROAZ) said on Monday morning.
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According to her, there are 44 people in Brabant hospitals who are suspected of having the corona virus among its members. That’s seventeen more than a week ago. Four of these 44 patients are in intensive care, all others in a normal nursing ward.
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According to the ROAZ, last week’s disturbing reports of an increase in the number of infections have not yet been reflected in the number of admissions to hospitals in Brabant. “There is no trend yet,” she explains.
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11.44
The increase in the number of corona infections in Belgium is ‘worrying’. “It will take time to get the situation back in order,” a spokesman said at a National Crisis Center news conference Monday. The National Security Council has been meeting since Monday morning to consider more stringent measures.
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The number of infections increased in a week by 71 percent to an average of 229 per day. The province of Antwerp in particular is experiencing a sharp increase, but the increase is also ‘significant’ in the rest of the country. In the city of Antwerp it has been mandatory since Monday to have a face mask in your pocket, so that it can be put on in busy places.
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09.00
The corona virus was diagnosed at a mink company in Oploo. The Ministry of Agriculture announced this on Monday morning. A total of 26 mink farms in the Netherlands have now been declared infected. The company in Oploo, municipality of Sint-Anthonis, will be cleared on Monday morning.
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05.48
The corona crisis is causing an influx of holiday homes for sale in the Netherlands, which are selling for higher prices. Detached, larger holiday homes are particularly popular, including in places where they have been for sale for years. That write it FD.
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03.30
Dutch people with a foreign love can bring their friend back to the Netherlands. As of Monday, the entry ban will be relaxed for foreigners who have a relationship with a Dutch person, but who were no longer allowed to enter the country due to corona measures.
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03.30
On Monday morning, an interim injunction must be brought before the court in The Hague by two slaughterhouses that have not received permission from the NVWA to slaughter ritual in the run-up to the sacrificial festival. Their plan of action to comply with the corona rules has been rejected by the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority. Slaughterhouses must take additional measures during the sacrificial feast to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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03.28
One third of secondary schools gave all exam candidates a diploma this year, at least five times more than usual. Extra study time due to the corona crisis and more resits led to that high score after the cancellation of the central exam. This is evident from a sample of the AD among about a quarter of all high schools.
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01.13
An ampoule of antibodies from the blood of ex-corona patients can be given intravenously as a preventive measure or just after infection with the virus to remain passively immune. Only a lot more donors are needed, emphasizes professor of infectious diseases and microbiology Hans Zaaijer The Telegraph.
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00.25
The seal center in the Groningen village of Pieterburen is temporarily closing its doors to visitors because a volunteer from Switzerland has been infected with the corona virus. As a precaution, all sixteen volunteers will be quarantined, the Seal Center says. “Further measures will be taken in close consultation with the GGD.”
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