Today, tomorrow and Monday it must become visible that the partial lockdown has sufficient effect, Prime Minister Rutte said on Friday. Today meets that requirement. But we shouldn’t cheer too soon. The RIVM came up with the figures with hours delay and they would be incomplete. If so, they say nothing Infections: 8669 Recordings 92 … Read more
Ukrainian fitness influencer Dmitriy Stuzhuk thought Covid-19 didn’t exist. He eventually died of complications from the disease. Stuzhuk, who had more than a million followers on Instagram, became infected during a trip to Turkey. Back in Ukraine, the 33-year-old fitness fanatic was tested positive and became seriously ill. He had to be hospitalized. After eight … Read more
The number of corona infections is considerably higher in socio-economically weaker neighborhoods than in other parts of the large cities, RTL Nieuws writes. Neighborhoods such as Laak in The Hague, Southeast in Amsterdam and Feijenoord in Rotterdam have a relatively high degree of contamination, according to research by RTL Nieuws into 39 neighborhoods in the … Read more
There may be a flu medicine that can help against the corona virus. Hamsters given a high dose of favipiravir were found to be much less ill. The much more famous drug hydroxychloroquine had no effect. This is reported by KU Leuven, which published the study in the professional journal PNAS. Favipiravir is a drug … Read more
It could just take another year and a half before all corona measures are a thing of the past, the cabinet thinks, which is working on a long-term strategy. Even if there is a vaccine early next year. That’s not because it takes a long time to vaccinate everyone. If there are enough vaccines, it … Read more
Twitter has (again) blocked a tweet from Donald Trump. Trump claimed that the common flu is more deadly than Covid-19 and that we just have to learn to live with the new coronavirus, just like the flu. “Many people die every year, sometimes even more than 100,000 from the flu, despite the fact that there … Read more
Nanoparticles from air pollution have been found in the brains of a number of Mexican children. They are linked to the molecular damage that occurs in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. If future research confirms this discovery, it could have dire consequences, as 90 percent of the world’s population lives in polluted air, The Guardian writes. Medical … Read more
You may have never heard of The Hit Kwis. And then you have not missed anything. The show, which was hosted by Romy Monteiro and Kees Tol, has been voted the worst TV show of the year. The jury of the TV Knollen, the TV equivalent of the Razzies and the Loden Leeuw, unanimously declared … Read more
Imagine: you are sitting comfortably on the couch thinking hard about losing weight. And then you just lose a few pounds. Too good to be true? These scientists claim not, although you still have to do something. The researchers at the University of Plymouth come up with the FIT method (Functional Imagery Training), which involves … Read more
ZEIST (ANP) – The number of corona patients in a hospital continues to rise. On Saturday, hospitals treated 741 people for coronavirus infection. This is the highest number since the end of May, according to figures from the National Coordination Center for Patient Distribution (LCPS). Nursing units are currently treating 585 people with Covid-19, the … Read more