In a specially inserted press conference, in which he addresses the cabinet, Lubach has no good news. “I’ll get straight to the point right away. The latest corona numbers don’t look good. In the region of The Hague, we see the number of wrong decisions increasing rapidly. Especially among De Jonge. Unfortunately, we see in more and more places that people in the OMT (Outbreak Management Team) and people with interests in hospital laboratories are too close together, ”says Lubach, in front of a blue screen with the text: ‘only together we get corona’, a nod to the government slogan ‘only together can we get corona under control’.
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Lubach: ,, That is why I am making another appeal here: keep enough distance from the matter. Don’t wash your hands innocently. Avoid large groups who think alike. And do you have complaints about the fact that we also use commercial laboratories because you are in a crisis out of the box must think, stay home. It is important that all ministers and Sander Dekker adhere to this. ”
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Lubach continues: ,, The virus is not gone. The virus has no commercial interests. We all remember the horrific images of the situation in August when a minister hugged his mother-in-law and the communications department could hardly take it anymore. We never want that again. ”
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According to Lubach, the Netherlands, with Hugo de Jonge in the lead, has been lagging behind for months. The test capacity could have been considerably increased much earlier, if we had abandoned our ‘beautiful and refined’ small-scale network and engaged large German test factories, even if only temporarily. “Ultimately, three thousand people were killed in our nursing homes, which is more corona deaths than in Japan, Denmark and Finland put together. That was not only due to too little testing – we will still be talking about mouth masks – but why didn’t we go crazy with those large commercial labs? ”
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On his Sunday with Lubach ‘Lubach exposes the conflict of interest at the Outbreak Management Team (OMT), in which physician-microbiologist Ann Vossen is responsible for scaling up the testing capacity. She is also chairman of the Association of Medical Microbiology. “So she basically represents those hospital labs. So the person in charge of testing capacity insists on sticking to the smaller and slower Dutch labs, which she represents herself. As if you have a very good fire brigade and there is such a big fire that we cannot handle it and says to the commercial fire brigade who is coming to tears: no thanks. ”
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In August Lubach announced that he would stop the program, because he wants to pull the plug at the peak. Lubach kicked off the twelfth and therefore last season, which again has ten episodes.
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The program Sunday with Lubach started in 2014. Lubach and his team won the Televizier Ring in 2017. ZML has turned out to be one of the big ratings hits of the NPO in recent years. In the spring, the program reached two million viewers.
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