The Dutch government announced a "partial lockdown" due to the high number of infections.
Meanwhile, the king is on vacation and is criticized for it.
Shortly before a
second corona lockdown *?
The
Netherlands
faces another new challenge.
Corona crisis catches up with the Netherlands: Stricter
measures
throughout the EU state.
Experts fear a
“patient tsunami”.
Update from October 16, 8:35 p.m.:
The Dutch
King Willem-Alexander
caused displeasure in his home country
with a
vacation trip
to
Greece,
despite the tightened
Corona measures
.
MPs called on Prime Minister
Mark Rutte
on
Friday
to
comment on
the king and his family's flight to their holiday home in the
Peloponnese
.
The peninsula is not yet considered an area with an increased
corona risk
.
The king's trip on Friday had been announced by reporters.
Corona in the Netherlands: King is on vacation in Greece - "unreasonable and incomprehensible"
"If the king is on vacation now, that's really the wrong signal," said the group leader of the
opposition
Green-Links party,
Jesse Klaver
, according to the Dutch news agency
ANP
.
Joost Sneller
from the
ruling party
D66 called the trip "
unreasonable and incomprehensible
".
In view of his
role model function
as head of state, the 53-year-old should have followed the
government's
call
to stay "in one's own environment" as much as possible.
MEPs from other parties made similar statements.
Stricter corona protective measures
have just been ordered
in the
Netherlands
.
Among other things, pubs and restaurants have to close for four weeks.
On Friday, the authorities reported that almost
8,000 new corona infections
had been registered
since Thursday morning
- a new record.
The
health
minister and deputy head of government
Hugo de Jonge
was surprised at his weekly press conference by the news about the vacation trip of the royal family, reported the public broadcaster
NOS
.
He then stated that recommendations to combat the
corona pandemic
would apply to everyone, including the
king
.
Corona in the Netherlands: Federal government classifies the whole country as a risk area
Update from October 15, 8:04 p.m.:
On Thursday, the federal government
classified
the whole of the
Netherlands
as a
corona risk
area.
It had previously been announced that the Netherlands wanted to bring corona patients to Germany again.
Ernst Kuipers
, the head of the Acute Medical Care Network, said he expected the first patients to be relocated on Friday or Saturday.
German clinics
had already admitted numerous patients from the neighboring country in the spring because there were initially not enough places in
intensive care units
there.
In
North Rhine-Westphalia
alone
, hospitals had made
more than 100 beds available
for Dutch
corona patients by
the
beginning of April
.
Even before
Kuipers'
announcement
, it had become clear that health care in the
Netherlands
is at risk
due to the spread of the
coronavirus
.
Corona in the Netherlands: emergency rooms have to close temporarily
Update of 14 October, 16:57:
In the
Netherlands
due to the spread of is
coronavirus
the
health care
at risk.
In
Amsterdam
,
Rotterdam
and
The Hague
,
hospital
emergency rooms have
already had to be temporarily
closed
.
This was announced by
Ernst Kuipers
, head of the network Acute medical care, on Wednesday the Parliament in The Hague.
Emergency rooms had to close for several hours and ambulances had to take patients to other hospitals or cities because all
beds were occupied
and
not enough staff
were available.
The number of
Covid-19 patients
in hospitals and intensive care units in the
Netherlands
continues to increase.
Despite the tightened
Corona measures,
the hospitals expect that by
November,
in the best case, 40 percent of regular care will have to be cut.
In the worst case, if the measures do not work, you can expect a reduction of 75 percent.
"Then
only first aid
remains in addition to
Covid-19 care,
" said
Kuipers
.
He reported that the
situation
was compared to the first wave
gloomy
.
Numerous treatments and operations have already been canceled.
Corona in the Netherlands: "We are among the three worst affected countries in Europe"
First report from October 14th:
Holland - The Netherlands is
currently sinking into absolute chaos
: "We are among the
three worst affected countries in Europe
, and it is
worse than in America,"
Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced on Monday evening.
Due to the
increasing number of new infections,
the government tightened the
corona measures
on Tuesday evening
.
The numbers are
worrying:
Almost 44,000 new infections in the last seven days * and that for a country of only 17 million people.
This was registered by the Reich Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) on Tuesday evening (October 13).
For comparison: in the previous week it was
around 60 percent
less.
So the trend is rising.
The corona situation in Germany is similar.
The number of new infections shot to over 5,000.
Corona in the Netherlands: An enormous number of new infections lead to tightened measures
The
Infection numbers *
rise, the government
tightened the measures:
The Dutch
Prime Minister Mark Rutte ordered
new restrictions
on Tuesday evening
: pubs, cafes and restaurants have to close.
The sale of alcohol is prohibited from 8 p.m. and the citizens of the Netherlands
In addition, they are only allowed to receive a maximum of three guests per day in their private apartments and houses.
In addition, the mask requirement is then no longer a recommendation, but
an express regulation
.
This applies to all public spaces, shops, museums or libraries.
Rutte appeals to the Dutch citizens in the broadcast press conference: "
It is now up to
us all. Be realistic Dutch and
take responsibility."
Holland reacts with "partial lockdown" to corona spread: expert suspects "patient tsunami"
Due to the new record numbers *,
Prime Minister Martin Rutte announced
a
"partial lockdown"
in The Hague.
The situation is
"alarming"
in almost all regions
, according to Rutte.
According to
tagesschau.de,
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
are currently worst affected
.
But concerns are not only growing in the government: a “patient tsunami” is expected to hit the Netherlands in the next few months, as a
Dutch intelligence service
quoted
the chairman of the
Dutch medical association,
Peter Paul van Benthem
.
Due to his
technical expertise
in this area and the current dimensions of the pandemic, his prognosis does not even sound unlikely.
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