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In the six days since, 44,327 new cases have come to light, an average of 7,387 per day.

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In the weekly update, the RIVM also calculates how many people were admitted to hospitals in the past week because of Covid-19, the disease caused by the corona virus. Last week it involved 1,661 new hospital admissions, 374 of which ended up in intensive care. Furthermore, the RIVM will report on Tuesday how many people have died as a result of their corona infection. Last week, the institute reported 129 deaths, compared to 146 the week before.

The reproduction number is also recalculated. That happens twice a week. Last Friday it was 1.03. That means that 100 people who carry the virus infect on average 103 others. By default, RIVM looks back in time about two weeks, because otherwise it cannot provide a reliable figure. The reproduction figure of 1.03 therefore refers to the situation as it was on April 15th.

06.43 – India passes 20 million corona infections mark

The number of people in India infected since the coronavirus outbreak rose above 20 million on Tuesday. During the past 24 hours, 357,229 new cases have been reported. The number of corona deaths in the same period was 3,449 and totaled at least 222,408, according to data from the Ministry of Health.

India is the second country in the world after the United States to have registered more than 20 million infections. The South Asian country recorded 10 million infections in the past four months, while the country took more than ten months to cover the first 10 million cases.

06.34 – Commission only wants Janssen vaccine for people over 30

The scientific committee advising the Canadian government on vaccination policy on Monday recommended that the corona vaccine Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) should only be used in people 30 years and older.

On March 5, health authorities had approved the use of the vaccine, which requires only one dose, in people 18 years and older. But the distribution of the first 300,000 doses of the drug was delayed by the Health Ministry on Friday over concerns about its quality.

Denmark announced on Monday that it would stop using the vaccine, because it can rarely cause blood clots. The European medicine watchdog EMA and the World Health Organization WHO approved Janssen. They point out that the dangerous side effects hardly occur.

In the Netherlands, the vaccine from Janssen from Leiden is used. The first groups to receive the drug are hospital employees and clients and employees of institutions in mental health care (mental health care). The government’s corona dashboard estimates that nearly 40,000 people have been given that vaccine to date. In the course of this week this should increase to more than 80,000 and by the end of May almost 160,000 Dutch people should have received the Janssen vaccine. Janssen should deliver about 3 million doses in the months of April, May and June, enough to vaccinate as many people.

06.30 – Go outside anyway

Most people who had to go into home quarantine for ten days after a trip abroad go outside anyway. This has emerged from an investigation by the Behavioral Unit of the RIVM and the association for GGDs, care minister Hugo de Jonge writes to the Lower House. Most often they do this to run errands.

The PVV had asked him to provide insight into the reasons why people did not follow the quarantine advice. For almost all countries in the world, travel has been discouraged for months (code orange). Soon it will not be just an advice, but there will be a ten-day quarantine obligation, but only for countries with a very high risk of corona. The House will vote on this next week. The Chamber foresees problems with the enforcement of the obligation.

Of the 47,254 participants in the study, 1,265 had been abroad in the previous six weeks. Of them, 41 percent were excluded from the advice for home isolation because of work, school or visiting family in Belgium or Germany. More than 12 percent did not go outside, but did go to a test on the fifth day after entry. More than 45 percent of these returnees (573 people) went outside despite the advice.

Most often they did this to go shopping (68 percent) or to get some fresh air (57 percent). Yet one in three people involved also started working (31 percent), 18 percent walked the dog and 36 percent were outside for another reason.

De Jonge cannot estimate how many people will travel abroad in the coming summer months and to whom the quarantine obligation will apply when they return. In February there were about 250,000 travelers, mostly by road, who would have potentially quarantined if the law was already in force. The minister thinks that it will soon be far fewer people, because the law only applies to very high-risk areas.

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