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Fear of hundreds of infections after the outbreak in café Hillegom

Director Sjaak de Gouw of the GGD Hollands-Midden says that it is possible that hundreds of other people were infected after a corona outbreak in Hillegom. At least 23 infections have been associated with a café in the South Holland town. They probably got infected on the late evening of Saturday, July 11. The cafe is closed as a precaution.

“We can never check exactly how the infection went in the café,” said De Gouw in the radio program News and Co. “It is not often that it is so massive. We do not know what role ventilation has played, for example. But that one person infected 23 people is unusual. We also see in testing that almost everyone who was in the neighborhood is positive. That we have never experienced before. “

‘People have worked on’

The infected visitors probably infected other people in the days that followed, says De Gouw. “There are a number of people who have worked through with minor complaints. That is a bit in our genes, not being faint and just going to work with a cough or a nose cold. But it is disturbing, because now there are many more people in those workplaces that we have to follow. A multiple of those 23, up to several hundred. “

According to De Gouw, it is important that café visitors keep a distance of one and a half meters from each other. However, he can imagine that things can sometimes go wrong in practice. “If the music is loud in a café, try to have a conversation at five feet. Those are circumstances that are not ideal for fighting the corona virus.”

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