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Uncertainty about the variants – and the consequences for protection – is a matter of debate. The cabinet is divided on possible relaxation. Experts argue that little relaxation is possible.
Read the latest news about the corona crisis below:
- Gommers: Injecting people over 60 as soon as possible for relaxations
- Expert: ‘Vaccination policy must be done as quickly as possible on the shovel’
- Worries about high infection rates at school: ‘They are coronabroeinesten’
07.02 – Hong Kong temporarily stops with Pfizer
Hong Kong and Macau have temporarily stopped inoculation with Pfizer / BioNTech corona vaccines due to bottle defects. According to the Hong Kong government, this is a precautionary measure and BioNTech does not see a safety risk with the use of vaccines from the party at the moment.
The Hong Kong government had received a warning from the local distributor of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine. He reported that there were problems with the closures of the bottles in one batch.
BioNTech and the distributor “have found no reason to believe that product safety is at stake,” said the Hong Kong government. Authorities did not say how many vaccine doses were compromised, but the use of two batches is being suspended until further notice.
06.50 – Pricking AstraZeneca resumes
The GGDs start administering again on Wednesday of AstraZeneca’s corona vaccine.
06.35 – More than 3,000 dead in 24 hours in Brazil
More than 3,000 corona deaths in 24 hours have been recorded for the first time in Brazil. The toll of the corona epidemic has risen rapidly in Brazil in recent weeks. The South American country breaks one grim record after another, both in terms of deaths and infections.
On Tuesday, Brazilian authorities reported as many as 3,251 registered corona deaths. In addition, there are 82,493 new infections.
The downward spiral is causing a lot of unrest on the streets in Brazil. On Monday, protests erupted across the country against the government’s approach, with protesters hitting pots and pans. President Jair Bolsonaro, who regularly downplays the seriousness of the virus and the pandemic, has defended his government’s approach in a television address.
In total, nearly 300,000 people in Brazil have already died from Covid-19.
06.30 – First delivery Janssen
Pharmaceutical Janssen will deliver in April nearly 170,000 corona vaccines to the Netherlands, Minister Hugo de Jonge (Public Health) reports to the Lower House.
06.27 – Café test in Utrecht is canceled
The intended Fieldlab test of a number of catering establishments in Utrecht to investigate the corona behavior of café visitors is canceled in its planned form. According to the cabinet, it is not possible to organize the ‘practical test’ due to the current situation with the increased infections from the corona virus.
Researchers want to use the test to see how catering entrepreneurs, their staff and guests deal with the corona rules. How the contact moments are, how many people visitors have a chat with and how long they chat with each other. They also investigate how well the measures are being observed and how the ventilation is concerned.
06.25 – Germany
The number of new corona infections detected in Germany in the last 24 hours has doubled from the day before. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German counterpart of the RIVM, reported nearly 16,000 new cases on Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday morning, the RKI reported 7485 new cases. With the new figures from Wednesday, the total number of confirmed corona infections in Germany comes to 2,690,523.
At least 248 people died in Germany from the effects of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. This brings the total official death toll from the pandemic to 75,212.
On the night from Monday to Tuesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the state prime ministers decided that the lockdown in Germany would be extended until April 18. The authorities also decided that the number of social contacts around Easter should be limited.
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