Coronavirus press conference: Lockdown extended, some relaxations for schools and shops
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At a press conference on February 2, acting Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Health Minister Hugo De Jonge announced that, while a handful of coronavirus restrictions would lift next week, the lockdown would remain in place until (at least) March 2.
Dutch coronavirus press conference
Rutte said the country was at a tense and unpredictable moment in the pandemic, and said that the cabinet would try to be as open and honest as possible with the general public. He sounded optimistic yet realistic as he said that the number of daily infections was falling, slowly but surely. However, he once again emphasised the severity of the spread of the so-called British variant (B117), saying prediction models show that a third wave is inevitable.
First healthcare workers receive second dose of coronavirus vaccine
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After news of delays of coronavirus vaccines, the Netherlands had some good vaccine news on Wednesday as the first healthcare workers received their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
Sanne Elkadiri receives second coronavirus vaccine dose
Three weeks after the Netherlands’ first coronavirus vaccinations took place on January 6, the first round of healthcare workers have received the second dose of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine on Wednesday. Again, 39-year-old Sanne Elkadiri was the first to receive the second dose.
The testing facility in the village of Urk in the Netherlands went up in flames on Saturday night. An effigy of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was set on fire in Copenhagen on Sunday.