It could well be that a next pandemic will be caused by a still unknown coronavirus, but a new flu pandemic also has a good chance, according to experts. An outbreak of a dangerous ‘paramyxovirus’ unknown to most people is also looming. – This is apparent from an informal poll by de Volkskrant among dozens … Read more
Psychological complaints such as anxiety and depression have increased by a quarter worldwide in the first year of the corona pandemic, according to researchers from the Free University in Amsterdam and the World Health Organization (WHO). – Their study confirms once again that this is especially the case for young people. The researchers call the … Read more
Opening of the catering industry (not the Greek restaurant from the article in the photo) was closed on Saturday until five o’clock in the afternoon. Image: John Peters – Roermond – Greek Restaurant Irodion in Roermond had to ask the guests in the restaurant on Saturday evening to leave the business immediately. – The restaurant … Read more
Spain wants to make a major change in its corona policy. In addition, corona will no longer be regarded as a pandemic, but increasingly as an endemic disease that occasionally crops up, just like the normal flu. – That is why Spain is working on a new surveillance system: Sentinel. This is similar to the … Read more
The number of corona patients currently in Dutch hospitals has fallen further in the past 24 hours. – On Christmas Day, 1978 people are hospitalized with Covid-19, according to the most recent figures from the National Coordination Center for Patients Spreading (LCPS). That is 148 less than a day earlier. A total of 534 people … Read more
The tax investigation service FIOD arrested a man on Friday morning who is associated with the website ‘jaikwilcorona.nl’, where the virus could be ordered in a tube in order to self-contaminate. He is accused of fraud. – Via the website one could order a ‘corona kit’ with a tube ‘full of virus’ with which the … Read more
Photo for illustration. Image: ANP / ANP – Children between the ages of 5 and 11 with an increased medical risk will soon be able to receive a corona vaccination. – Outgoing minister Hugo de Jonge (Public Health) reported this to the House of Representatives on Wednesday. In doing so, he is adopting an earlier … Read more
Scientists believe they have found the cause of the very rare side effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine in which blood clots (thrombosis) are formed. – Researchers in Wales and the United States, according to the BBC found that a protein in the blood is attracted to an important part of the vaccine. AstraZeneca’s vaccine is … Read more
Image: Dutch Height / ANP – People over 60 should put their travel plans on hold to avoid exposure to the risks associated with the omicron variant, says the World Health Organization (WHO). – He does repeat that general travel bans are not useful to stop the spread of the virus, whether mutated or not. … Read more
Image: Getty Images/Tetra images RF – Even a mild corona infection can sometimes be fatal for the unborn baby in pregnant women, researchers at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam believe. – They have established that the mothers of thirteen babies who died in the abdomen before birth had a corona infection, confirms gynecologist Sam Schoenmakers after … Read more