VideoThe OMT recommends a hard lockdown to keep the omikron variant small. The cabinet will discuss this in conclave on Saturday. If it continues, almost everything will have to close – just like last December. “This is worrying.”
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Niels Klaassen
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Today the Outbreak Management Team went into emergency deliberation. According to insiders, the experts advise to go into a hard lockdown quickly. Many must then be locked, except supermarkets and ‘essential shops’. The cabinet will hold consultations on Saturday. Everything indicates that the OMT advice is being followed, which means that the Netherlands will enter a hard lockdown in December, just like last year.
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“We are concerned, the spread is going very fast,” said Health Minister Hugo de Jonge (CDA) after the Council of Ministers on Friday. to slow down.” If action is indeed taken, a press conference will follow after the Saturday meeting, it is now expected.
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It Outbreak Management Team bowed this morning about the latest data on the omikron variant that plagues countries such as England and Denmark. For now, the mutant doesn’t seem any more sickening. But if the omikron variant infects many more people in a short period of time than the old virus version, hospitals will fill up faster than before. And the Dutch hospitals cannot have that, with currently more than 2470 corona patients admitted (of whom 638 are on IC).
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