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13.30 – Fishermen Urk can get corona vaccine on Saturday without an appointment
About six hundred fishermen from Urk can get a corona vaccination on Saturday without an appointment. GGD Flevoland has reserved the vaccination location in a sports hall at the Vlechttuinen that day especially for them.
Because the fishermen are usually at sea, it is difficult for them to get a vaccination or to make an appointment for it. That is why they can receive the Janssen vaccine on Saturday without an appointment. This is handy because only one injection is needed. The fishermen must bring their ID with them to the vaccination location.
13.05 – Indonesia hospitals are filling up
More and more hospitals in Indonesia are full of corona patients as the number of infections continues to rise. People with mild complaints are therefore urged by the government to stay at home.
Currently, 74 percent of hospital beds are occupied. According to the National Hospital Association, hospitals in several cities are already full and cannot handle new patients. In some places sick people are already being sent away.
The shortage of medical oxygen has increased considerably in a short period of time. At least 33 patients died in a hospital in Yogyakarta last weekend, according to staff. Authorities say the situation should now be under control. Several companies have promised to use oxygen for healthcare products and no longer for industry. The Asian country will also import oxygen cylinders.
Indonesia is struggling with a significant advance of the corona virus. On Monday, 29,745 new infections were registered. That is the highest daily figure since the start of the pandemic and a fivefold increase from the number of cases at the beginning of June. Indonesia has officially recorded a total of more than 2.3 million infections. The death toll rose to more than 61,000 on Monday with 558, also a daily record. Experts think the actual numbers are much higher because little is being tested.
12.35 – Fauci: ‘99.2% corona deaths America is not vaccinated’
American corona expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says that 99.2 percent of all corona deaths in the United States involved unvaccinated people. “It is very tragic that most of these deaths are simply preventable,” he told NBC.
In the program ‘Meet the Press’ of the American television channel from Fauci, his frustration with the fact that many of his compatriots do not believe in the effectiveness of the vaccine. Fauci sees the vaccine as the ideal opportunity to contain the virus. “Let’s put our differences aside and realize that the virus is our common enemy.” In the US, 605,000 people have died from the effects of corona. This makes them the country with the highest number of corona deaths.
11.22 – Delta variant of coronavirus now also dominant in Belgium
The delta variant of the coronavirus now also prevails in Belgium. Concerns about the mutant grow. It is more contagious than previous variants and is spreading throughout Europe.
The virus variant first appeared in India. Delta then took hold in the United Kingdom, so much so that the government in London had to postpone major easing of corona measures. Portugal followed, and the variant is now also dominant in Germany. It is probably already the case in the Netherlands.
That the new mutant would outpace other variants around this time is entirely in line with expectations, say experts in Belgian media. “By the end of the month, we may even see only the delta variant again,” says biostatistician Geert Molenberghs, who will be speaking in De Morgen.
11.10 – Health Council will provide advice on combining injections on Monday
The Health Council will issue its advice on combining different types of vaccines against corona on Monday afternoon. This has been discussed for some time.
For example, researchers from the University of Saarland in Germany recently stated that people who receive a second injection of Pfizer/BioNTech after the first injection of AstraZeneca develop a better defense against the corona virus than after a second dose of AstraZeneca.
10.40 – Young people born in 2006 can make an appointment for an injection
Young people born in 2006 can make an appointment for a corona jab since 10:00 a.m. on Monday morning, Health Minister Hugo de Jonge and the RIVM report.
You can schedule an appointment by phone or via www.coronavaccinatie-afspraak.nl. The invitation for teenagers born in 2006 will arrive on the doormat from Wednesday. More than 192,000 people were born in 2006.
The young people, who will turn 15 this year, will receive the vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech at the GGD. Teenagers from the age of 16 decide for themselves whether they want to be vaccinated. Children aged 12 to 15 decide this together with their parents or guardians. If they can’t figure it out, the child’s opinion is the deciding factor.
In total, more than a million young people are allowed to be vaccinated. The intention is that they will be able to get their first shot before the start of the new school year and that they will receive the second shot in the first month of school. Last week, the cabinet decided that healthy young people may also be vaccinated. The Health Council had also recommended this. It was previously decided that young people from the age of 12 with a medical risk would receive a corona jab.
09.32 – ’Run op vaccins is net The Hunger Games’
The health minister of the Australian state of New South Wales compares getting vaccinated with The Hunger Games, a popular book and film series in which young people have to fight to the death. Due to a shortage of vaccines, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 is slower than in most developed countries.
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Australia has relatively few infections thanks to strict measures.
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Minister Brad Hazzard believes that the shortage has led to people looking for a corona jab in a panic. For example, people unexpectedly show up at puncture locations and try to make appointments by telephone. According to Hazzard of New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, “the hunt for the vaccines” gives a “Hunger Games feel.” In the country of 25 million inhabitants, about 7 percent is fully vaccinated.
Australia also has relatively few infections thanks to strict measures. This is due to largely keeping the borders closed and introducing short lockdowns. Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week announced a roadmap for reopening the border and ending these short lockdowns. This plan depends on the vaccination rate.
07.02 – Danny with corona in packed shot bar
Another error in Testing for Access: Danny (21) was sent a negative test result on Saturday, but was called on Sunday morning by test taker Covidia with the message that he does have corona. NH News reports that. In the meantime, he went to a packed shot bar in Amsterdam. “I have been cuddling with everyone,” the Amsterdammer tells the news website. A spokesperson for test provider Covidia confirms the error.
For the first time in a year and a half, Danny and his friend want to go back into town to stroll through Leidseplein. “To be honest, I felt a bit of a cold, but thought: I’ll get tested, then I’ll know for sure.” So he makes an appointment at a Testing for Access test location in Halfweg. The test result was negative.
Around 6 am he crawls into his bed, until he is woken up at 9 am. When he picks up, a Covidia employee is on the phone with bad news: “My colleague at the test location entered your test into the system incorrectly, so you received the wrong result. I regret to inform you that you have tested positive,” it sounds on the phone.
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Testing for Access confirms the error. “Two people tested positive at that test location and only Danny went wrong. These are situations that we must avoid,” said a spokesperson. Testing for Access says it is “insistently talking with Covidia to ensure that we can prevent this in the future.”
06.30 – NS allows all night trains to run again
From Monday, the NS will allow all night trains to run again. The nightlife trains on the Amsterdam-Haarlem, Utrecht-Amersfoort, Nijmegen-Utrecht and Rotterdam-Eindhoven-Utrecht routes were not used for a long time due to the corona measures. The night trains in the Randstad have continued to run as usual in recent times.
The choice to let the entertainment trains run again has everything to do with the relaxation. “There are now also opportunities for people to go out on weekends, so we want to accommodate people with this,” says a spokesperson.
05.54 – Royal couple in Berlin for first state visit in 16 months
The royal couple will pay a three-day state visit to Germany from Monday. It is the first state visit in almost sixteen months, due to the corona crisis. The visit was previously postponed and now continues with restrictions due to the virus and the measures in force. In Berlin, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will meet Angela Merkel on Tuesday, among others, in her last months as the Chancellor of Germany.
Together with caretaker minister Hugo de Jonge, they also speak with his German colleague about German-Dutch cooperation in the fight against the corona virus.
On behalf of the cabinet, outgoing Minister of Foreign Affairs Sigrid Kaag, Defense Minister Ank Bijleveld and State Secretary Mona Keijzer (Economic Affairs) are also present at various parts of the state visit.
The visit was actually planned last year but could not take place due to the corona crisis. The royal couple last went on a state visit to Indonesia at the beginning of the corona crisis, in March last year. The trip to Berlin concludes a series of visits to German states that the royal couple has brought to Germany since their inauguration in 2013. It is the twentieth outgoing state visit since the inauguration of Willem-Alexander in 2013.
Corona will be discussed during a visit by the royal couple to the Robert Koch Institute (the German equivalent of the Dutch RIVM). But corona also plays a role on a practical level: stricter rules apply in Germany than in the Netherlands, such as the mandatory wearing of a certain type of mouth cap. Access to the state visit is limited for the press.
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