Horeca Nederland calls in help from Sinterklaas
In an attempt to reopen the catering industry as soon as possible, Koninklijke Horeca Nederland has now even turned to Sinterklaas. In an advertisement in various national newspapers, the trade association wrote a poem to ‘de Grote Baas’ with a photo of a large orange carrot.
With this, Horeca Nederland says they are referring to the carrot that Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his ‘servants’ are holding out to the catering industry. ‘But if it stays that way, our industry will go under. It offers the catering industry no prospect of any better. Like we said, it doesn’t work for five feet. ‘
‘Country cannot be opened by mass testing’
The corona measures cannot be relaxed by having people tested on a large scale. This is the conclusion of epidemiologists from UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University on the basis of a new so-called modeling study. Only if testing could become as common as brushing your teeth every day could it work to contain the coronavirus. ‘A lot of testing is good and that should certainly be done, but if we let go of the measures, it will certainly go wrong’, says doctor-microbiologist and research leader Marc Bonten. According to him, despite the many tests, the virus will still be able to spread because most people are still sensitive to contracting it.
Corona Minister Hugo de Jonge wants, following the example of Slovakia, Austria and the British Liverpool, to conduct a trial with large-scale testing this year. The Ministry of Health is looking for a strategy to relax measures while controlling the virus. This is to further limit the economic damage of the partial lockdown. From March 2021, every Dutch person would be able to have themselves tested once a month on average, even if there are no symptoms.
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