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12.40 – Nivel investigates long-term consequences of corona
The Nivel health institute will conduct research into the short and long-term consequences of a corona infection on human health. In doing so, the institute not only looks at the complaints that people experience, but also at the effects of a corona infection on the quality of life.
Nivel also maps the social and other consequences, such as the ability of patients to work. For most people, the disease process is mild after being infected with the virus, but some continue to suffer from complaints for a longer period of time. Little is known about the latter group of people.
Nivel is investigating the course, severity and short and long-term effects of an infection in 250 patients who have had a corona infection. From this month onwards, the participants in the study will be selected via the GP and asked to participate. They are interviewed shortly after contracting the virus and after three months.
According to Nivel, the insights from the research can contribute to improving corona care and the support of corona patients. The institute expects to publish the first results later this year.
11:58 – Austria wants to reopen society next month
Austria expects to be able to relax all kinds of corona measures from mid-May. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz wants to present the plan at the end of this week.
“From tourism to gastronomy, from culture to sports, because all sectors finally need a step back to normalcy,” Kurz said on the radio on Tuesday. Very strict conditions are attached to the planned reopening. For example, a negative corona test must be shown for the catering industry and the culture and tourism sector. However, this is not necessary for shops.
Shops and service providers are open in most Austrian states, but restaurants and hotels must remain closed. In the capital Vienna and the state of Lower Austria, a strict lockdown is in force due to the dire situation in the hospitals. But the number of infections has dropped sharply recently. The vaccination program in Austria is progressing relatively well.
10.03 – Kuipers becomes board member of hospital group in Singapore
Ernst Kuipers, chairman of the National Acute Care Network (LNAZ), will become a member of the board of the National University Health System (NUHS) in Singapore. According to him, the function is only supervisory. Kuipers is the first foreigner to get a place on the board of the hospital group, according to Erasmus MC, where Kuipers is currently chairman of the board.
NUHS is a group of multiple hospitals, outpatient clinics, faculties and specialist institutes, including the National University Cancer Institute of Singapore. Kuipers has announced that he will not exchange Rotterdam for the Asian city-state. Due to the corona pandemic, he will meet online with the board next month, but he will be physically present later.
9.46 – Zuyderland again closes operating theaters for corona pressure
Zuyderland will close four operating rooms in the hospitals of Heerlen and Sittard as of Tuesday. This is necessary in view of the increase in the number of corona patients in hospitals and intensive care units. Operating room personnel must be deployed for corona patients, a spokesman for Zuyderland reports.
Zuyderland previously also closed operating theaters several times for the same reason, first five, later another four. Only six of the nineteen operating theaters are still open for urgent regular care.
As a result of the closures, the waiting list of patients waiting for an intervention in regular care has risen to 5,000 people, according to the hospital. Chairman of the board David Jongen from Zuyderland announced on Monday evening in the TV program Beau that he was very concerned about the announced relaxation.
7.02 – Hospitals ask Covid staff not to take time off during May holidays
Some of the hospitals ask the staff to refrain from days off during the May holidays. In the intensive care and Covid departments in particular, the pressure is so high that leave for doctors and nurses is hardly possible. De Volkskrant reports this after a tour of hospitals in, among others, The Hague, Rotterdam, Den Bosch, Tilburg and Sittard.
“Many hospitals now ask staff whether it is possible to move the holiday,” says Bart Berden, chairman of the board of the Elisabeth TweeSteden Hospital in Tilburg. “Team leaders ask their people if they can keep it up for a while, or whether a vacation is really necessary.”
Staff are not forced to cancel their holiday yet. “That is really a draconian measure,” says Berden. “We look closely from day to day to see whether this is necessary, but hospitals are extremely reticent about that.”
Peter de Jager, head of the IC in the Jeroen Bosch hospitals in Den Bosch, thinks that politics and hospitals should have made national plans months ago to get through the May holiday well.
6.40 – People from 1952 receive an early injection invitation
People born in 1952 will receive an invitation to be vaccinated against corona from Tuesday, ahead of schedule. It concerns a total of about 200,000 people who receive the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine at the GGD. In fact, people in this group would not receive an invitation until the end of April and an injection in early May, but an earlier extra supply of the Pfizer vaccine makes them eligible earlier.
Another reason for shifting the injection schedule is, according to the RIVM, that some people who had their turn earlier did not immediately make an appointment with the GGD. As a result, appointment times remain open. Some people from the year 1952 may also fall into a different vaccination group, such as those for people with a particular medical condition. As a result, they may also receive an invitation for an injection from their GP. According to the RIVM, anyone who is mobile can choose who he or she is vaccinated by.
6.35 – Makers of Russian vaccine advertise illegally in the Netherlands
The makers of the Russian Sputnik-V vaccine advertise their own drug against Covid-19 in the Netherlands on Twitter. They spread half-truths about competitors, de Volkskrant reports.
Recently, the suggestion to follow the account of the Russian vaccine has popped up prominently among Dutch Twitter users. Behind the account is an investment fund owned by the Russian government that pays Twitter to distribute the recommendation.
The Twitter account @sputnikvaccine (327,000 followers) reports mainly in English about deliveries of “the first registered vaccine against Covid-19.” Possible side effects of competing vaccines are also described. The advertisement does state that it has been paid for.
The advertisement is a violation of Dutch law, says Frederik Schutte, secretary of the Dutch Drug Advertising Code Foundation (CGR), because advertising for medicines that are not freely available at the chemist’s is prohibited here. The Russian vaccine is also still under evaluation at the European Medicines Agency EMA and is therefore not officially registered. Advertising unregistered medicines is also prohibited by law.
6.30 – RIVM: probably an increase in the number of infections again
The number of corona infections in the Netherlands is likely to increase again. The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) will provide the exact number of positive tests in the past seven days on Tuesday.
From last Wednesday to last Monday, some 47,390 new infections have already been registered. On average, the RIVM reported nearly 7,700 positive tests per day in recent days. This means that during the presentation of the weekly figures on Tuesday, a considerably higher number may be reported than last time. In the last week update, the RIVM reported 51,240 new infections.
The RIVM also calculates the current reproduction number, which indicates how quickly the corona virus is spreading. In the latest update of the institute, one hundred people who contracted the virus infected an average of 97 others.
In the weekly figures, the RIVM also reports on Tuesday how many corona patients were admitted to hospitals last week. In the last week update of the RIVM, there were 1700, of which 386 in intensive care. In addition, the RIVM will announce the number of deaths in the past week and the institute will provide an update on the number of people who have been vaccinated so far.
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