The Dutch Government has said it will ease its COVID-19 restrictions from Wednesday despite record reported infections, which have come despite the restrictions and the country being 90% vaccinated.
With much of Europe already under lockdown restrictions, Denmark and the Netherlands have recorded their first cases of the Omicron variant, which may lead to additional measures being imposed on the Continent.
Heart and cancer patients in the Netherlands will have to wait longer than expected to receive treatment after health authorities began reserving ICU space for future Covid patients.
Documents obtained via an FOI request show that, in March/April of 2020, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs did a cost-benefit analysis of lockdown. It concluded that the costs far outweighed the benefits.
Professor Neil Ferguson has said that Britain is unlikely to need a winter lockdown because high cases numbers earlier in the year mean antibody levels are higher in the U.K. than Holland or Germany.
A new Lancet pre-print study from Sweden finds zero vaccine efficacy against infection after nine months, and worrying drops against severe disease as well. But some people are living in a parallel universe.
People have gathered in The Hague, Netherlands, to protest against the "medical apartheid" barring those who haven't been vaccinated or tested for Covid from bars, restaurants and theatres.
Positive Covid tests have shot up in the last two weeks in the Netherlands after nightclubs reopened. But is there more to it than meets the eye?
So many other Covid vaccines will be available in the Netherlands that most of the 11 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine ordered by the Dutch Government will go unused, according to a Dutch health official.
