Infection Radar, testing, and hospital and ICU admissions In addition to figures on positive tests and hospital admissions, the page also includes information from the Infection Radar surveys, sewage surveillance and pathogen surveillance.
NETHERLANDS LOCKDOWN UPDATE
Read more on the webpage Weekly coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 figures.ġ6 August 2022 | 17:15 Weekly update on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2: 16 August 2022Īs of, expanded information about the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is provided on this page.
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The number of new ICU admissions of patients with SARS-CoV-2 also remained stable and relatively low there were 27 ICU admissions last week, compared to 26 ICU admissions the week before. The number of new hospital admissions of patients with SARS-CoV-2 remained the same compared to the week before. On 8 August 2022, the reproduction number based on reported positive tests was 0.88 (0.83 – 0.93). The number of people who were tested for COVID-19 by the GGD also decreased (-17%). The number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 reported to the Municipal Public Health Services (GGDs) decreased (-24%) last week compared to the week before that. In the Infection Radar survey, the percentage of people who reported possible symptoms of COVID-19 last week decreased slightly (-1.6%) compared to the week before that (-1.9%). Read more in the weekly update on COVID-19 vaccination figures.Ģ3 August 2022 | 15:10 Weekly update on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2: 23 August 2022 From 8 July 2022 on, adults who have not yet had a booster jab or repeat vaccination against COVID-19 received a reminder letter from RIVM.
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Vaccination coverage for the repeat vaccination among people over 60 has now reached 54%. People aged 60 years and older, people living in nursing homes, and people with severely impaired immunity are eligible to get a repeat vaccination against COVID-19 three months after their booster jab or three months after a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Up to and including Sunday 21 August, almost 2.7 million repeat vaccinations had been administered. Prime Minister Mark Rutte will on Monday make a televised address to the nation, which has so far recorded 20 deaths from COVID-19 disease and 1 135 infections.23 August 2022 | 16:00 Vaccination figures: 15 to 21 August 2022 The cannabis queues came despite Health Minister Bruno Bruins making an “urgent appeal” to Dutch people during Sunday’s press conference, saying: “Do not hoard. Lines also built up at Roermond near the border with Germany, amid fears that the German government would shut its borders with the Netherlands next after introducing strict controls for those arriving from France, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Denmark from MondayĬannabis is technically illegal in the Netherlands, but it decriminalised the possession of less than 5g of the substance in 1976 under a so-called “tolerance” policy. “I was literally just watching the press conference with my flatmate and then I just went downstairs and suddenly there’s this queue of like 30 people, and all these cars arriving as well now.”
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It might be a long time in quarantine,” said an Irish woman who gave her name as Hannah as she queued in The Hague. “I wouldn’t mind having a little bit of weed - keep it easy while we’re at home for so long. Staff set up separate lines for cash and cards as customers hurried to order supplies of exotically named strains like “Doctor”, “Bubble” and “Purple Haze” before the doors shut.