GGD Amsterdam confirms this to RTL Nieuws.
One of the four Amsterdam vaccination locations, the NDSM Loods, will be used twice as a festival site at the end of this month. And that means bad news for people who have an injection appointment there: it is not possible to vaccinate for two days. “It cannot be combined with the festivals on the NDSM site,” says the spokesperson.
Hundreds of appointments canceled by text message
The spokesperson says that the GGD was under the assumption that they could vaccinate, despite the festivals. “But it’s not going to happen, so we said we’re canceling all appointments.”
The GGD did that with the text message below.
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“People should therefore indeed schedule a new appointment,” the spokesperson confirms the text message.
But social media reports that the lines are overloaded. In addition, people are surprised at the cancellation of their appointment:
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