Coronavirus/CoVid-19/Pandemic/Health
Coronavirus In The Netherlands — Update 1 and 2 May 2020
Here are some updates from the 1st and the 2nd of May.
The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport say they give Dutch sports clubs 110 million Euros to support them. Since the begin of March, sports clubs don’t have many activities to do because of the Coronavirus outbreak. As the government don’t want sports club fall down, Minister Van Rijn says the government will support them.
Belgium is blocking all borders with The Netherlands creativity. Such as containers, mountains of sand and fences. Filip van Hecke from Philippine (Zeeuws-Vlaanderen) found these blocking borders there and took pictures of all the borders, he says tp Omroep Zeeland (Dutch regional broadcast).
A quarter of the graduate students did not make any choice for which study they want to do. A lot of graduate students say to NOS Stories on Instagram, it is because of the Coronavirus crisis. These students can’t go visit schools to look at what it looks like and what departments schools have. Also, they are thinking if they can get a job when they finish education.
It is getting better with all the medical supplies. That is what Minister Van Rijn Says: “We see that the demand is still growing, but the supply has also grown. We depend on the aircraft every time, but that is going well now. So supply and demand are moving. If you go through the eye hairs looks, the shortages are starting to end.” The poll that has been held, shows that half of the staff in nursing homes, the district nurses and the GGD experience shortages of protective equipment. A third feel pressure from managers and colleagues to provide good care without protection. Not everyone in health care, experiences that things are going in the right direction with the shortages, Van Rijn acknowledges: “If people do not feel it, I understand very well that you say: yes, those numbers are one thing, but the practice is another. That is why we are also discussing the guidelines with the profession.” The minister says that the chain is “completely blown through”, from the purchase of resources to the actual delivery. “And then there will still be tension between the guidelines and what you encounter every day, and we have to keep talking about this.”, He adds.
On the 11th of May, schools are going open again in a form that fits with the needs and size of the school. But the Daycare industry is very angry. They believe that the reopening of school will end up in disappointment. According to the poll of the Daycare Coordination, the conversations between the daycares and the schools are very difficult. That is because they don’t attune to each other enough. Half of the schools don’t keep up the measurements, say the trade industry Daycare (BK) and the trade industry Society Daycare (BMK). “Schools have been asked firmly to divide the education together with daycares and take the view that children are going to school whole days. Based on the poll, we have to say that this didn’t happen.”, Says these trade industries. Pupils are going to schools for half days or even change school times. They have done this without talking to the daycares. There will be a time gap when the children end school and the start of the daycares. Within the next few days, these organisations want to discuss the problems.
The WHO will do research if the new CoVid-19 virus will have an exceptional and severe inflammation reaction. Last week, there were a few cases in some countries. Also in The Netherlands, there were two cases with this unknown syndrome. In both cases, the children were tested on the Coronavirus, but in both cases, they were tested negative. They both don’t have the Coronavirus.
People are working from home all over the world because of the Coronavirus crisis. The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant writes that employers are installing software on the computers of their employees. The installed software must count how many keyboards strikes the employee makes. Also, the software makes screenshots of the employee's computer. There are companies who make webcam pictures from their employees to see if they are really behind their screen to work. The newspaper says: “This way the companies try to prevent that employees are secretly celebrating holidays on the bosses costs.” This way, companies want to know if the employees are not on websites such as Facebook and other social media.
The Chinese ambassador in The Netherlands — Xu Hong — bought one page in the Financial Daily (Dutch: Financieel Dagblad). On this page, he wrote a letter to the ‘Dutch Friends’. He denies — in a one-page advertisement — that the Coronavirus is made in a lab in Wuhan. He also says that the “irresponsible politicians and media” are spreading these rumours. He says that it is possible that the Coronavirus has sprung from animal onto human being on a market in the million-dollar city Wuhan. He says: “It is undeniable that a small part of China and other countries have a habit to consume wild animals.” Xu Hong says that China has taken action to stop doing business in wild animals. In the open letter, he also says that The Netherlands is doing a good job to prevent the Coronavirus and what the crisis takes with us.
A lot of Dutch people will not get a higher salary as normal. The Collective (labour) Agreement conversations will be held around this time of the year, but they haven’t been taken place a lot recently. And if these conversations will take place again, then employers will not give their employees a higher salary. “Most of the employees will feel the pain.”, Says Raymond Puts — director of the Employers Organization AWVN. He continues: “Companies are faced with a drop in demand. We have to do everything to keep the jobs. Giving higher salaries is an impossible task, it is to say — with honesty — that is going to zero.”
Nurses and carers experiences more psychological tenses than normal. They experience tiredness, uncertainty, stress and insomnia. That says the Professional Association of Carers and Nurses (V&VN) based on a poll under 10.000 members. More than half of the nursing homes, district nursing and the Joint Medical Service experience a shorten of medical supplies, especially mouth masks. One third feels to give good care under pressure without good medical equipment.
Now the codeword ‘mask 19’ for domestic abuse is also for The Netherlands if you have been in a domestic environment at home. You can do this in pharmacies when you need help and then you use this codeword. A spokesman of the Ministry of Health, well-being and sports, confirmed to the Dutch newspaper NRC about this message. The same word code is allowed to be used in Spain and France when you are in a domestic abused environment. The pharmacist will bring you in contact with the right caretakers.
The Royal Land Forces say that there are found more old explosives when people are walking in nature or being around their home a lot at the moment. The Royal Land Forces have got about 78 reports about old explosives in one week. Normally the reports they get are about 30 in one week. “People are going into nature and working around their home, but they also are going into nature with a metal detector.”, said a spokesman to ANP. As far as known, nothing has gone wrong by finding the old explosives or munitions. The Royal Land Forces exclusively say that people need to call the police when they find an old explosive.
During his weekly press conference, Prime Minister Mark Rutte previewed ahead on the 4th and the 5th May: “With Commemoration of the Dead, the Dam in Amsterdam wasn’t that empty before. With this in mind, thanks to the Coronavirus, we see how important our freedom is.”
Minister Slob of Education wants joints decisions for schools and daycares to about reopening schools. The joint organizations in daycares are very angry with the difficult discussions between schools and daycares. Some schools are going to teach half days and because of that, they are not able to close the holes between the end of the school day and the start of daycare. Minister Slob ensures that — within ten days — there will be made good agreements about this problem: “Nobody will be happy when children are waiting in front of a closed door.” Minister Slob doesn’t want to force schools to teach longer. “Parents also could go to the parent's board participation.”, he adds.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says about the mouth masks in his weekly press conference on Friday: “The actual question is if the contract jobs — such as hairdressers and in public transport.” This question is in discussion with The Outbreak Management Team (OMT). Prime Minister says that the advices are very different worldwide.
Athlete Dafne Schippers is training on top sports centre Papendal again. She says it is safer there than in the woods. She is relieved and happy that she might train again.
The mayor of Breda — Paul Depla: “Appeal of Prime Minister Mark Rutte to stay out of the city centre ‘is a little bit silly’.” Depla says you can’t avoid the city centre and expect the stores will stay open when the customers are not in the city centre. Depla adds: “How can you keep stores open if you’re not allowed to go there? That’s schizophrenic, isn’t it? I am a city person, I like crowds, I like noise. On King’s Day, it was very empty in Breda. That was quite remarkable.”
It is possible that the University of Leiden will continue its online lessons until February 2021. it as already known that the campus will be closed until September 2020. There will be small groups of future students who will start in the next academic year. This way, the students will have contact with their teachers somehow. The university thinks that the scientist will come on campus earlier as the science will not be able to do at home, says the Regional Broadcast Station West.
Parking lots in ‘Hoek van Holland’, in Rotterdam, are closed to prevent people are entering the beach and that the beach will be busy again at the weekend. Also the parking lots of the spit of land near Rozenburg and the Maasvlakte will be closed as well as the entering roads. “Stay at home and take a short walk in your own neighbourhood!”, Says the borough Rotterdam.
Always check the (latest) facts with your country.
The numbers and stories are from yesterday or earlier this day. I haven’t seen new numbers so far, when there will be new numbers, rules and interesting situations here in The Netherlands, I will inform you.
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Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in Bunnik, The Netherlands, with her husband and three daughters. Writing is — aside from playing the violin — one of her passions since childhood. She is on Twitter and Instagram.
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