Outgoing minister Grapperhaus will talk to the mayors of the security regions about a new approach if there are local or regional corona outbreaks. A digital consultation about this will be held on 12 July, as was agreed during the last regular weekly meeting of the Security Council.
Last year there was also a system whereby measures could be taken at local or regional level, but that did not work well then. The infections soon spread to other regions. After a short time, the regional approach was abandoned and the same measures were taken across the country.
“The way we came up with it together last summer was not great, we should especially take that into account as a cabinet,” says Grapperhaus. He wants to offer “customization”, avoiding as much as possible that the entire country has to deal with measures that are only needed locally or regionally.
The chairman of the Security Council, mayor Bruls van Nijmegen, sees a difference between an outbreak in, for example, a care home and one in a village or city. In the first case, he can well imagine that local quarantine measures will apply, but in the second case, he believes there must still be national control. “If infections increase, they pass pretty quickly.”
Test for Access
The mayors and ministers Grapperhaus and De Jonge also examined the first weekend in which the Testing for Access system functioned. Things went wrong in several places. There were long lines at the test sites, by a hacking attempt Not everyone who got tested got the results on time and there were reports that catering entrepreneurs did not check properly, which allowed people to enter with someone else’s QR code.
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