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REGION – Follow the most important corona news of this weekend here.
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Music café in Leiden closed after ignoring measures
Mayor Henri Lenferink of Leiden has closed the building of music café Studio de Veste in the city, because the corona measures were not complied with. According to the municipality, supervisors have determined twice this week that the case was still open after 8 p.m.
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“One of the observations also involved loud music and this caused nuisance for the environment,” the municipality reported on Saturday. “Non-compliance with the corona measures is serious and entails great risks for the safety and health of people.”
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The mayor therefore considered it necessary to close the music café until December 6. Studio de Veste could not be reached for comment on Saturday evening.
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November breaks monthly record positive certificates
The month of November still lasts a week and a half, but has already set a new record. Never before have so many positive corona tests been registered in a calendar month. In the first twenty days of this month, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) reported about 290,000 new cases.
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The old monthly record is from December last year. That was the peak of the second wave. In 31 days, there were 273,443 confirmed infections. In October last year there were 229,559 new cases and in April this year 223,732.
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The number of infections is rising rapidly. In the first 20 days of October, there were 56,504 new corona cases. In one month, the number of positive tests has thus increased fivefold.
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More than 20,000 infections again, most deaths since March
For the fifth day in a row, more than 20,000 corona infections have come to light. The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) received 21,873 reports of positive tests between Friday morning and Saturday morning. That is the second highest number ever. Only last Thursday there were even more new cases, namely around 23,600.
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In the past seven days, RIVM registered 138,762 positive tests. That is the highest weekly total ever. On average, it comes down to 19,823 confirmed infections per day. That average is 48.5 percent higher than a week ago and that is the largest weekly increase in almost a month.
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RIVM received 55 reports in the past day that a corona patient has died as a result of the infection. That is the highest number since March 9. The fact that the deaths of these people have now been reported does not mean that they died within the past day. Sometimes it can take some time.
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In the past week, RIVM registered the death of 230 corona patients, an average of almost 33 per day. That is the highest level since March 14.
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More than 300 new patients in hospitals
Hospitals have admitted 350 new corona patients in the past day. It is the fourth time in the past five days that more than 300 people with corona had to be hospitalized in one day.
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The National Coordination Center for Patient Distribution (LCPS) reports that hospitals are now nursing a total of 2,217 corona patients. That is 70 more than on Friday. The increase was mainly attributable to the nursing wards, where the number of corona patients rose by 66 to 1785. There are now 432 seriously ill corona patients in intensive care units, 4 more than a day earlier.
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Van Dissel has high expectations of corona pill
RIVM director Jaap van Dissel assumes that strict corona measures will no longer be necessary after the coming winter period, partly thanks to the corona pill that is on the way. It is ‘unlikely, because then we will have that medication’, he tells NU.nl. The head of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT) emphasizes that the success of the pill is related to how it is used. “Whether the patient takes the drug, or who does it at the right time, or takes it long enough, are all factors that make how successful it is.”
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According to NU.nl, Van Dissel is counting on the pills to be widely available next year. ‘It’s good, because it’s coming. If you can then use them widely, that can have a beneficial effect’, says the RIVM boss, who indicates that he also expects a higher vaccination rate from the spring. Also, more people should have recovered from the virus. All this together should relieve the pressure on healthcare.
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An anti-Covid pill from pharmaceutical company MSD may already be used in the Netherlands and other European countries, medicine watchdog EMA announced on Friday. The pill is still pending approval and approval, but countries can already choose to distribute the drug “in view of increasing infection rates and deaths from Covid-19 in the European Union”.
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The pill is intended for people who have just tested positive for the virus and are at risk of becoming very ill. People should start taking the capsules within five days of the first symptoms. They then take it twice a day for five days. The drug should prevent the complaints from getting worse and people ending up in hospital or dying. A Pfizer corona pill is also being assessed by the EMA.
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Gommers: code black requires police protection of healthcare personnel
If code black is reached in hospitals in the Netherlands, healthcare personnel will have to be protected by the police or the army. Diederik Gommers, chairman of the Dutch Association for Intensive Care and OMT member, expressed this expectation on Friday in the TV program Op1.
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‘If we unexpectedly end up in code black, then this is what we see in Rotterdam,’ said Gommers, referring to the riots in the Maasstad Friday evening. ‘Then we will really have a situation where it will become unsafe in the Netherlands. If the situation becomes such that we are short of beds and that we have to make choices, then we have to protect our personnel with the police or the army. Because those emotions run high. If you then come to the hospital with your child or with your father or your partner and we say: ‘We have no room and your partner is not eligible. We’re going to put you on sedation and you’ll die.’ Then there will be unbelievable aggression,” said Gommers at Op1.
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According to Gommers, it is important that there is ‘really a change’ in the rising corona figures in the coming days, because otherwise more measures are needed. ‘Otherwise we will have emergency consultations with the OMT again. That is planned for Wednesday, but that may be brought forward,” Gommers said in the TV program.
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Grapperhaus: ticket control not yet improved
Compliance and control of the corona ticket has not improved this week, and in some respects has even deteriorated. That is what outgoing minister Ferd Grapperhaus (Justice and Security) reports on the basis of a poll that the cabinet has had. It is the intention that all visitors to, for example, the catering industry, theatres, cinemas, sports canteens and casinos, are checked on arrival with both their corona admission ticket and identity card. But there is no sector where more than roughly a third of visitors are really checked according to that rule.
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‘The figures on compliance and control are really insufficient,’ Grapperhaus writes to the House of Representatives. ‘Certainly now that the urgency is increasing due to the high infection rates.’ The minister will talk with the sectors where the corona pass is mandatory and with mayors to emphasize the importance of enforcement once again.
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Restaurants, theaters and casinos are still doing relatively well. On average, they ask about three quarters of their guests to show the corona pass. But here too, the identity check is lagging behind. Compared to last week, restaurants have asked for a passport or driver’s license more often. Since the corona admission ticket was made mandatory three weeks ago, cinemas have been monitoring less and less. In the first week, they still scanned the QR code of 85 percent of the visitors and checked the identity document for about half. That was 70 and 35 percent respectively this week.
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At least 22 occasions received a government warning last week. An order subject to periodic penalty payments has been imposed on 46 companies or organizations to encourage them to improve their lives. In one case it was closed.
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