It is going in the right direction with the number of corona patients in hospitals in Brabant. The number of corona patients in intensive care units dropped to seventy on Saturday. About forty new people with corona complaints were admitted to hospital. The majority of them have not (yet) been officially diagnosed. In this live blog, we kept you informed on Sunday with the latest news about the corona crisis.
The main facts at a glance:
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- The number of corona patients in hospitals in Brabant continues to decline.
- The highest bidder is cut in Boxmeer right after midnight.
- Tilburg will also use a pressure gauge.
- The pressure gauge in Breda has been consulted 3000 times in recent days.
- Read all the news about the coronavirus on our special theme site.
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20.30
Travel agency Corendon is working on a plan to test tourists on Corona before departure. Corendon needs hundreds of thousands of tests for this, CEO Steven van der Heijden said on NPO Radio 1 on Sunday.
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19.00
Hairdressers can wet the chest, because tomorrow morning the very hairy Netherlands can finally have a haircut again. In Boxmeer they do things differently: the highest bidder may already join at 00.01. The proceeds go to charity.
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18.30
Mother’s Day during the corona crisis requires creativity. That turned out on Sunday in Eindhoven, for example, where children treated their elderly mother live music and dance.
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17.45
After the enormous success of the Home Isolation Videos, the Fijnaartse sisters of OG3NE have decided to go even bigger. That is why they give a Home Isolation Concert on May 17. This way fans can enjoy their music live again, but from their own living room.
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17.20
The pressure gauge of the municipality of Breda, which shows how busy it is in the city center, has been consulted 3000 times in recent days. The app was used 224 times on Sunday, the municipality announced. By sending a message to the WhatsApp number 06-11778060, someone knows after a few seconds whether the light for a visit to the center of Breda is green, orange or red. The data for this comes from supervisors, camera images and data about crowds in parking garages. On Sunday it was green all day in Breda.
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16.35
This weekend, the municipality of Tilburg has installed four gates in the city center with instruments that measure the bustle in the center. The municipality uses the figures to better regulate visitor flows and communicates the crowds with a virtual traffic light on the website centeroftilburg.com, where the green light indicates off-peak hours and the red light warns of peak traffic. A pressure gauge is already used in Breda.
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16.00
An evening to remember. With that slogan, the Breda café Boerke Verschuren has put 29 tickets on the Marktplaats for sale for the ‘opening party’ on 1 June at 00:01. “DJs unfortunately get off the drinking spots, so DJ Xenox will turn the roof off. There will also be 1 skilled person present to pour the liquid gold into the glasses,” said the café.
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15.18
The students of t Schrijverke in Den Bosch will also go back to school tomorrow. The teachers want to make it a beautiful and special day. The students are welcomed by a song, each class can watch a live stream. A work of art is also partly revealed that represents this difficult time. It concerns three birds that step into the free world.
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15.05
The Belgian government has decided that, under certain conditions, all shops can be opened again on Monday after almost two months of closure. The limitation of contact between people is somewhat less strict, but remains complex, besides complicated. Belgians are allowed to invite people back home from Mother’s Day (Sunday), but no more than four. The choice of invitees is important, because the next people must be the same people. And they are not allowed to visit others in the meantime.
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14.00
The number of corona deaths has increased by 18 in the past 24 hours to 5,440. Nationally, there were 22 new hospital admissions, the RIVM reports on Sunday. The number of people who tested positive for corona increased by 245 to 42,627.
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According to the RIVM figures, 2686 people with corona symptoms have so far been admitted to hospital in Brabant. And according to those figures, so far in our province, 1453 people have died from the effects of the virus. In the past 24 hours, 31 new infections were reported in Brabant.
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13.35
The imposition of higher taxes is inevitable for the government to get out of the crisis. It makes sense if companies and people who have been relatively unaffected by the consequences pay more taxes. That said columnist Martin Wolf of the British business newspaper Financial Times in television program Buitenhof. “Relatively wealthy people can work from home more easily and are therefore less likely to lose their jobs. Then it makes sense that you pay a little more during the build-up phase. That is the social contract.”
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13.26
Half (48 percent) of people who used public transport before the corona crisis do not plan to travel by public transport when wearing face masks is mandatory. EenVandaag concludes this after a poll of nearly 23,500 members of its own Opinion Panel. Many then prefer to go by car, bicycle or walk.
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12.17
After eight weeks of homeschooling, primary school pupils are allowed to return to school in groups on Monday. In observing the rules to limit the number of contact moments and to prevent infections, the children must adhere to a number of essential rules. Reason for Artishock in Den Bosch to make a song and accompanying dance. To make it clear that following rules can also be a lot of fun.
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12.06
The number of corona patients in hospitals in Brabant continues to decline. There are currently about 250 patients with corona symptoms in hospitals. The virus was also definitively diagnosed in 180 of them. The others are suspected.
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About forty new people with corona complaints were admitted to hospital on Saturday. The majority of them have not (yet) been officially diagnosed. That number is therefore lower than in the past period, and it should be noted that in the weekend there are generally fewer new recordings. The decline is a positive sign.
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The number of corona patients in intensive care units has also fallen slightly again. There are now more than seventy people with corona on the ICs in Brabant. That number is slowly falling.
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11.46
Supporters of Willem II who buy a season ticket for the coming season are allowed as a thank you for free to a European home game of the Tilburgers. This is the first football match in which the public is again welcome. The team of coach Adrie Koster was in fifth place in the Eredivisie when the season ended due to the corona crisis. The KNVB decided to give Willem II a ticket for the preliminary rounds of the Europa League.
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11.09
The government must come up with a fund to help entrepreneurs who want to quit now. That is what chairman Jacco Vonhof of employers association MKB-Nederland said in the TV program WNL Op Zondag. According to the entrepreneur foreman, that is now far too difficult to do without getting into debt.
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10.00
The schools are open again on Monday. Children no longer have to keep a distance of one and a half meters from each other at school. But teachers should try to keep that distance from each other and from the children. What’s up with that?
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09.31
Swimming laps, recreational swimming and swimming lessons: in principle everything is allowed again from Monday. That is, if your pool manages to comply with all strict rules. And there are a lot of them. In any case, you should change clothes at home, keep your distance and not shower on location.
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09.08
As of Monday, all 1.2 million amateur football players in the Netherlands can return to the field. The cabinet announced this week that adults can also play football at their club (outside) again from that date. For the youth, the ball started rolling again on April 29. “Obviously there are still restrictions so that the chance of infection with the coronavirus remains minimal”, emphasizes the KNVB. For example, no competitions may take place, the canteen and changing rooms must remain closed and only training forms in which one and a half meters apart can be allowed.
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08.00
The Metropole Orkest has been in existence for 75 years and planned to celebrate this year in a big way. That fell into the water due to the corona crisis. The orchestra comes with something else, bearing in mind the reason why it was founded – shortly after the Second World War – to offer the people ‘hope and entertainment’ during difficult times. The orchestra compiled a special CD with the favorite music of founder and former conductor Dolf van der Linden (1915-1999). All nursing homes will get one and orchestra members will visit some of those institutions on Wednesday to give a small performance live.
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00.53
The number of confirmed corona infections has passed four million worldwide. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore announced this on Saturday evening (local time) and according to an own count of the French news agency AFP.
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