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50 percent more Covid patients: Neighboring country takes rigorous action again after easing

2021-11-03T09:36:55.336Z


The incidence is more than 300, the number of Covid patients has doubled in a week: The Netherlands are reintroducing strict corona rules.


The incidence is more than 300, the number of Covid patients has doubled in a week: The Netherlands are reintroducing strict corona rules.

The Hague - keep a distance of 1.5 meters applies again: Just over a month ago, the Netherlands lifted many corona measures.

As a result, the number of infections rose rapidly.

The situation is now considered serious, the highest warning level applies.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte appealed to the citizens: "Everything depends on our own behavior".

Rutte also announced an extension of the mask requirement on Tuesday evening in The Hague.

For example, customers and salespeople in shops as well as hairdressers, masseurs and workers in other contact professions (with the exception of prostitution) must now wear mouth protection again.

Rutte called for people to work from home if possible and to avoid public transport at peak times.

Corona in the Netherlands: Highest warning level - 3G rule in gastro & co.

The presentation of the health pass, which proves "3G" (vaccination, recovery or current negative test), is also compulsory in museums and in outdoor dining areas.

The government is also planning a law that will allow employers to require their employees to present a health passport.

According to media reports, there was a police operation in the evening near the Ministry of Justice and Security, where Rutte was holding the press conference.

People had gathered there for a demonstration against the new measures.

Corona numbers are increasing in the Netherlands: the current incidence is 313

As the health authorities announced on Tuesday, an average of 7711 new corona cases were registered per day in the past week, 39 percent more than in the previous week.

The 7-day incidence is now 313.

About 50 percent more Covid patients have been admitted to the hospitals in the past seven days, not that much since mid-May.

In the meantime, the situation at many hospitals has become so precarious that hundreds of operations have been canceled again.

In the past week, 102 people died as a result of a corona infection.

About 20 percent of Dutch people over the age of 12 are not vaccinated.

(AFP / dpa / frs)

Source: merkur

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