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Re-introducing the obligation to wear mouth caps: quickly back to basic measures according to RedTeam – a bitter necessity Coronavirus

That message comes from members of the RedTeam, the alternative advisory team of experts that makes solicited and unsolicited proposals to the government for taking corona measures.

RedTeam member and infectious disease modeler Marino van Zelst of WUR in Wageningen: “If you don’t go back to the basic measures, the corona situation can really get out of hand this winter, nobody is waiting for that.”

Medical microbiologist Bert Mulder of the Nijmegen CWZ, also a member of the RedTeam, is also very worried. “There is another wave coming, rest assured. It is currently going so fast that we have almost no corona tests in the hospital; in two weeks, the number of requests for tests during working hours has more than doubled.”

Reintroducing the mask obligation is not the solution, they both say. Van Zelst: ,,It is a sum. I also think you should look at the quarantine rules, which have now become much looser for vaccinated people.”

The call of the RedTeam is supported by Radboudumc. Since Monday, that hospital has been asking people to use the well-known basic measures: 1.5 meters away, mouth nose masks, working from home where possible, washing hands, ventilating. In the hospital itself, those rules have never been abolished.

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