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People over sixty can make an appointment for Pfizer or Moderna vaccine

People over sixty who have not accepted their invitation for a corona jab with AstraZeneca will have the opportunity to make a new appointment from Saturday. They then receive a vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna.

Corona minister Hugo de Jonge announced on Tuesday that the ‘refusers’ will receive a repeat call for another vaccine against the corona virus. This while the cabinet first maintained that “whatever the pot” is being prodded in order not to make the vaccination program unnecessarily complicated.

A group of people over 60 asked for a different arrangement after reports of thrombosis and platelet deficiency as a rare side effect of AstraZeneca’s vaccine. A petition to give the group of sixties another vaccine was signed about 17,000 times.

From Saturday, people over 90 who have not yet responded to a vaccination invitation will also receive a repeat call. In mid-June, people in their 70s who have not yet had an injection receive a letter and at the end of June it will be the turn of 65 to 69-year-olds. People in their eighties have already been called up between 20 April and 1 May, because the vaccination rate in this group seemed to lag somewhat behind.

04.51 – Van Dissel: injection from 12 years of age reduces the spread of the virus

If children from the age of 12 are given a corona vaccine, it will considerably limit the spread of the virus next winter. RIVM director Jaap van Dissel tells the AD.

“The modellers have already calculated it and then you see that the reproduction value decreases by about 15 percent in the winter period if you have vaccinated children from 12 years old. That can be important to keep the spread low during that period, too,” he says.

03.31 – After almost eight months, real competitions in amateur sports again

For the first time in almost eight months, real competitions are again on the program in Dutch amateur sport. Youth up to 17 years old can play in competition against other clubs from Saturday. The sports canteens can also open their doors again.

The government recently decided to bring forward the third step in the so-called opening plan. The possibilities for sports are being expanded. The KNVB football association has set up the Regiocup, a regional tournament where youth teams from clubs that are close to each other play against each other. Hockey association KNHB has also set up a regional competition for the last weeks until the summer holidays.

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