Today, 08:22 • 4 minutes reading time
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REGION – Follow all the corona news from the weekend of January 8 and 9 here.
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What are the numbers this Saturday?
Not a new daily record, but more than 28,000 new corona infections. The day before, RIVM noted nearly 35,000 positive tests. Hospital occupancy has again decreased.
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- 28,003 new corona infections (Friday: 34,954)
- 149 new corona patients on hospital wards (total: 1076, -31 compared to Friday)
- 16 new corona patients in hospital intensive care units (total: 405, -4 compared to Friday)
- 8 people infected with corona have died (Friday: 24)
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Corona strikes at training camp in Portugal
Twelve of the fifty people who attended the training camp of football association ROAC from Rijpwetering contracted the corona virus. One player turned out to have corona just before leaving Portugal. He is the only one left behind in the southern European country and is quarantined in the hotel. The eleven traveling companions tested negative in Portugal, but positive upon their return.
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GGD chairman Rouvoet: two extra vaccination rounds in 2022
The GGDs are taking into account two additional rounds of vaccination in 2022, chairman André Rouvoet said in an interview with De Telegraaf. They are also going to work with ‘free entry’ in more and more places and into the neighborhoods to increase the vaccination rate during the current booster campaign.
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Rouvoet expects to go into the neighborhoods with boosters in the second half of January: ‘Then we will vaccinate groups that are left behind. It is also the turn of the people who have not yet been able to receive a booster, because they have recently become infected. After that, we are taking into account two more rounds of injection for this year, in roughly May-June and October-November.’
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Covid-19 program director Jaap Eikelboom of the GGD expects extra measures to increase turnout during the current booster campaign, he tells the newspaper. ‘More and more locations are starting to work with free walk-in. More slots will become available as we have had more people. The turnout for the over 60s fluctuates between 80 and 95 percent. At the same time, we see that the turnout of people under 40 is indeed disappointing. This was also visible during the basic campaign. They generally wait a little longer until it suits them, for example before the holidays. For them, that free walk-in is a godsend.’
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The Netherlands achieved the 2021 vaccine donation target on paper
In 2021, the Netherlands succeeded on paper in donating 27 million corona vaccines to poorer countries, but not all the shots have actually arrived at their destination. For example, there are still about four million vaccines ready, of which it has not yet been decided to which country they will be given, NU.nl reports.
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Of those 27 million corona shots, almost six million were donated bilaterally, i.e. from country to country. The Netherlands sent these vaccines to Suriname, Kenya and Indonesia, among others. The Netherlands has donated the other vaccines to COVAX.
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Corona leads to postponement of funerals
Funeral directors spend a lot of time in the corona crisis arranging postponements for funerals and cremations that cannot take place within the statutory term of six days. They argue for relaxation of the rules, the AD reports.
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In the month of December, when many more people died than would be the case in a normal year, a significant minority of funerals did not meet the legal deadline of six days after death. Dela, the largest funeral director in our country, reports that this was true for about a quarter of all funerals and cremations, and in some regions as much as a third.
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Epidemiologist Dekkers: ‘Chance of code black smaller due to Omikron
The chance of a code black, where all available beds in hospitals are occupied, has decreased slightly due to the arrival of the omikron variant. That’s what clinical epidemiologist Olaf Dekkers of the LUMC said in Nieuwsuur on Friday evening. ‘The data on omikron have become more robust, showing that it is less pathogenic. For the time being, it doesn’t look like the IC is going to fill up.’
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Dekkers: ‘Denmark is probably our foreland. They are a bit further there with boosting. Our peak will be in a week or two. I think it is now clear what the end of omikron will be. It is reasonable to assume that in two months we will also be out of the omikron misery in the Netherlands.’
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