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In this live blog we kept track of all important events regarding the corona virus on Sunday.
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Janneke Bosch
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The main topics:
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- RIVM reported no new corona deaths in the past 24 hours on Sunday afternoon
- Two new infections have been detected in Brabant
- Read all the news about the coronavirus on our special theme site.
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21.44
Travel agency Corendon will continue to offer flights to Turkey for the time being: “Only if others are not allowed to fly, are we prepared to reconsider our decision. Equal monks, equal caps,” said CEO Steven van der Heijden in NPO Radio 1 program This is the Day .
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Van der Heijden still does not understand why Rutte needs to have his society. “It is unclear to me why we are the bitten dog. Where other companies do not say anything to their customers, they deliver them to Schiphol and say: ‘Check it out’, we are just working with them. We think it is extremely unjust and careless that Rutte told us
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Corendon offers its customers a free corona test, so they don’t have to be quarantined, the company says.
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20.00
“If someone has had a coughing fit in an elevator, small droplets are still present fifteen minutes later. If the elevator doors are left open, it always takes about two minutes before those very fine risk drops disappear from the air. ” That is the view of Daniel Bonn, professor of complex liquids, in the TV program EenVandaag.
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Bonn is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam and advises not to take an elevator, but to take the stairs if possible. “I certainly wouldn’t go into a hospital lift in which corona patients are transported.”
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18.30
Campaigners have stuck bananas at several court buildings. Bunches have also been placed in front of the entrance. That is in response to a call from action group Virus Madness. Bananas are located at the court of Breda, among others. The activists want to say that the Netherlands is a ‘banana republic’.
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17.30
The number of people who have died worldwide from the coronavirus is approaching half a million. This is expected to happen in the course of Sunday, the same day it became known that the number of coronavirus infections worldwide has passed 10 million. This is shown by counts from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA.
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The Brabant figures are also included in this.
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16.30
The police and ME emptied the Malieveld on Sunday afternoon. People who had come to the field to demonstrate in spite of a ban, were led away on horseback to the Central Station by police vans, people from the ME and police.
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Several people who refused to leave have been arrested by officers. A number of people threw bicycles at the police. It also paved the way from Malieveld to the city center.
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Around 16.00 it was relatively quiet on the Malieveld and in the surrounding area. However, the police are watching the situation closely and people who want to be sent that way.
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16.15
The number of corona patients treated in an intensive care unit increased by one person on Sunday, compared to a day earlier. There are now 30. There are 178 corona patients in the nursing wards, 2 less than on Saturday.
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16.10
Figures on new corona infections are likely to play a major role in international equity markets again. Worldwide 10 million infections have been detected. In addition, the United States, the world’s largest economy, is experiencing a new revival of the lung virus.
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14.02
This year’s Tilburg fair will have three or four squares, where people can buy a ticket to spend a certain amount of time there. That said fair councilor Rolph Dols on Sunday afternoon in the Omroep Brabant program Kraak. It is still talked about exactly how the fair will look. The alderman will announce this sometime in the coming week. It is also unclear how many people are admitted.
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After the announced relaxation of the corona measures, there will still be a Tilburg fair this year.
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ALSO READ: There will be a Tilburg fair this summer, but: ‘Not to the full extent’
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13.55
No corona deaths have been reported to RIVM in the past 24 hours. In total, 6105 people have now died in the Netherlands as a result of the corona virus. This is evident from the figures published daily by RIVM.
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The virus has been diagnosed in 74 patients in the past 24 hours, which increases the number of people infected with the corona virus to 50,147. Three new hospital admissions have been reported.
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Two new infections have been detected in Brabant. The number thus rises in our province to 9,763.
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13.41
The work was actually only planned for next year, but due to the corona crisis, the municipality of Eindhoven is bringing it to the fore: as of next week, maintenance will be carried out on the John F. Kennedylaan, one of the main arterial roads in the city.
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Due to the corona crisis, there is now less traffic and fewer events are organized in the city, is the idea behind the early work.
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13.37
Acting mayor Johan Remkes issued an emergency order on Sunday because of the presence of a few hundred people on the Malieveld in The Hague. There is a ban on demonstration there, but people have come to The Hague anyway. They want to demonstrate against the corona measures. The police arrested several people who refused to leave. A number of people threw bicycles at the police.
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13.35
The Tweemaster nursing home in Maassluis has reported 25 corona infections. It concerns 17 residents and 8 employees.
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The infected residents are transferred to the special Covid department in the Marnix Rehabilitation Center in Vlaardingen. Employees and volunteers who have the coronavirus or show symptoms that are compatible with the virus are exempt from work.
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12.57
In the Omroep Brabant program Kraak, Bart Berden of the ElisabethTweeSteden Hospital in Tilburg looks back on the corona crisis. “We are happy with how it went, but things have to change.”
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Regular care was virtually shut down at the beginning of the corona crisis. People were called on not to come to the doctor or the hospital with non-life-threatening complaints. Berden would now approach this differently. “The way we have done it now is not good. Next time it really has to be different.”
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12.16
The number of people infected with the coronavirus around the world passed 10 million on Sunday. This is shown in a count from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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The United States has the most identified infections: 2.51 million, followed by Brazil with 1.31 million. Also when it comes to corona deaths, the U.S. is at the top, with 125,539 deaths.
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12.04
Since March, motorists in Oss no longer had to pay to park. Because of the coronavirus, the municipality then decided to no longer maintain paid parking. That was then for hygienic reasons and to support local entrepreneurs. But now that it is getting busier in the city center, that will change again. From July 15 you also have to pay again in Oss if you park your car.
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11.52
In Dongen too, everything is being done to organize a fair after the relaxed measures of the cabinet this summer. The fair should be there on July 10. The noses of the municipality and the organization are heading in the same direction, let the organization know. But whether it will also succeed is not yet entirely certain.
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11.22
A number of people nevertheless reported on the Malieveld in The Hague on Sunday morning. According to the police, with the aim of possibly demonstrating anyway. “The demonstration is forbidden. Go home!” Tweeted the police, speaking of a few people present.
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The demonstration against the corona measures is forbidden by acting mayor Johan Remkes. The Viruswaanzin organizer has also called on people not to come to The Hague. Around the Malieveld there are also signs with the text: Go home.
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9.00
“In the beginning it’s a far-from-your-bed show. But then you’re in the middle of it in no time.” These are the words of Wendy Bruists, caretaker at the Sint Petrus care home in Boekel. Together with her colleagues Bernadet van den Acker and Arjan van Herwaarden, she looks back at the corona peak in St. Peter and how things are going now.
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With 21 deaths out of some 10,000 inhabitants, Boekel is severely affected by the corona virus. Reporter Jos Verkuijlen and cameraman Dennis Stafleu will be in this municipality throughout June. They tell stories about the holes that have fallen in the village and about the resilience of the inhabitants.
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7.30
For those who have no holiday plans yet: a trip to the north is also possible. Dutch tourists can return to Denmark. The country again allows tourist travelers from a number of European countries, including the Netherlands. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday that the so-called color code of Denmark has therefore been adjusted from orange (only necessary travel) to yellow (there are security risks).
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