Nearly a thousand Dutch people recently contracted corona in Austria | Inland

France, also a popular ski and snowboard destination, follows in second place with 740 confirmed cases. This is followed by Belgium, where there had been 682 people who were later found to be infected, Germany (669 cases) and Spain (605 cases). 339 infected people had visited Italy in the last fourteen days, according to the figures, which the AD was the first to report on.

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Austria recently introduced strict entry rules for Dutch nationals. Anyone who has not yet received a booster shot must be quarantined for at least five days, which makes a winter sports holiday practically impossible. Many Dutch people moved to their holiday destination quickly before the quarantine obligation came into effect. Some compatriots went to get a booster jab just over the border in Germany to get their turn earlier and to be able to hit the slopes without any problems.

The United Kingdom, which is the only one of these countries to be regarded as a ‘very high-risk area’ due to corona for a long time, is in the middle bracket with 256 confirmed infections. The United States is on the same level.

RIVM calls the figures “underestimations of the actual numbers and percentages.” Due to the high number of infections, the GGDs do not always succeed in conducting source and contact investigations after someone has tested positive. In many cases, therefore, it is never established where someone may have contracted the virus. Of all the people who tested positive last week, at least 5.9 percent had recently been abroad.

The Outbreak Management Team (OMT) also signals in its latest advice “a large increase in reports of positively tested persons who have recently traveled to the Netherlands from abroad.” The experts who advise the cabinet on the fight against corona expect this number to increase further in the coming weeks and months.

As far as the OMT is concerned, everyone who comes to the Netherlands from abroad should take a self-test immediately after arrival and repeat this after five days.

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