Coronavirus/CoVid-19/Pandemic/Health
Coronavirus In The Netherlands — Update 8 and 9 May 2020
There are new Coronavirus crisis updates from the last two days. There are happening a lot of things here.
Update 8 May 2020:
The third aeroplane from Morocco has been landed at the Dutch airport Schiphol. In this aeroplane — from Casablanca — were 300 Dutch citizens who have health issues and must go back to The Netherlands. Since the Coronavirus crisis, Morocco closed its country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs tried to get those people back to The Netherlands. The conversations went very difficult. The relationship between The Netherlands and Morocco is very difficult. That could be the cause of getting help from the authorities in Morocco. There are still 2100 Dutch citizens in Morocco.
In the village, Giethorn will forbid to cycle aside from the canal between 11 am and 5 pm. You can’t be on 1,5-meter distance from each other. The last weekends were very busy there.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs talks to stores to buy and distribute mouth masks together. That says the Dutch newspaper NRC. From the 1st of June is obligated to wear mouth masks in public travel. That is the reason why people ask mouth masks much more. A source with The Ministry of Economic Affairs says, in the same newspaper, that China is able to deliver enough mouth masks: “If Blokker or Kruidvat places an order of a million mouth masks, that will not be successful. This requires cooperation, whereby the government places large purchase orders for the Dutch market.”
Restaurants owners are very busy with placing the orders of their customers since the press conference last Wednesday. That says the ordering website The Fork. There are thousands of people who ordered a spot in a restaurant. The owner of the website — Joyce Teune: “We see that many people are eager to eat out again.” Most spots are in restaurants in cities such as Utrecht, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. It is not sure whether the restaurants could reopen again on the 1st of June. The cabinet wants to say it definitely one week before that date.
On two mink farms in Brabant, there has been found the Coronavirus. That says Minister of Agriculture — Schouten. As with the last two mink farms it is in the south of Brabant, in Deurne and in De Mortel (municipality of Gemert-Bakel). The company in De Mortel is the owner of the second company that was already infected with CoVid-19. With these two new infections, it seems that has been from human onto animals. Because of the first animal infections in this area, there has been an investigation, in and around the companies. It seems that there was the material of the Coronavirus on the stables, in the near surroundings of the minks. It is not sure, yet, if human beings could be infected by those materials of the virus from minks from the stables. The area of these companies is closed 400 metres for walkers and cyclists.
The province Zeeland welcomes more tourists to ensure the very important economical tourist branch to get money. From the 15th of May, 50 per cent of comes from renting houses, and those will rent again and the Safety Region will allow that. Since the 1st of May, the percentage was already 15 per cent. That goal isn’t reached as the small companies can’t rent the houses right now. The Safety Region says they want to help them and give them the 50 per cent to rent. Only when the pressure in health care will be a minimum, then 75 per cent of the renting spaces will be increased from the 29th of May. And — for the same reason 100 per cent from the 1st of July.
An art institution from Amsterdam — Mediametic — got into the world press with their idea for dining Corona-proof. This Mediametic has also a dining space, focused on having diner tables in greenhouses. They organised an evening where they could do this for proof. Press around the world covert them, from France to New-Zealand and from Africa to Ukraine. Pictures from this evening were seen in the Finnish TV News. In the Dutch Newspaper AD, director Willem Velthoven said he frustrated about his colleagues saying that it is impossible to dine at a 1,5-meter distance. He wanted to prove the opposite. Reserve for a four-course menu in a greenhouse for the month of June is not possible anymore.
When you want to go to the swimming pool you have to put on your swimsuit at home. That says the protocol of the KNZB. Monday is the day the indoor swimming pools are allowed to reopen again. When people enter the swimming pool they must wear their swimsuit and almost ready to go into the water. Also, you have to go to the toilet at home.
Prime Minister says it is still the question if the pop concerts, football matches and cycling events will continue after the 1st of September: “We still don’t know much about the virus. Maybe you will discover new insights and you may be able to do things again at some point, but I am not going to offer false hope now. The major events will be closed until the 1st of September and then we look further.”
Part of the parents which children are going to school sees problems in planning when their children are going to school again next Monday. Especially between schools and daycares if children going to school for half days. That says Marjet Winsemius of Foundation For Working Parents. Minister of Education — Arie Slob — said earlier that it better for children going to school whole days. Not all schools are doing that. Winsemius got many complaints about that. “We speak to many parents who have their hands in their hair and don’t know how to do it next week. “If one person has lessons in the morning and the other in the afternoon, as a parent you are a kind of taxi centre. If you also have to work at home, it is almost impossible to organize. Then you are just picking up and bring it and you get nowhere.”, She said. She adds: “Daycare cannot always assist in situations like this”, says Winsemius. “They are also confronted with schools that all have different times. Instead of having to pick up children at school at 3 pm, they have to do that at 1 pm, for example. That is not possible for them either. It really remains to be seen how it’s going to run on Monday.”, She continues.
There will be a lot of questions about the relaxations, but that is normal according to Prime Minister Rutte. “Because of the miserable virus the whole society has to change some essential things, within a few weeks.”, Says Prime Minister Rutte. He also said that people need to take their own responsibility and also, he has no plan to conduct more rules to prevent the pressure in public transport.
Minister of Education, Arie Slob, thinks that every school and daycares made conditions for the partial reopening of the schools. “There was the crux, otherwise you run the risk of children standing in front of closed doors,” he said prior to the cabinet meeting. Primary school students get 50 per cent of their class teaching next Monday. To close the daycare with the teaching rooster the schools and daycares discussed it. “That was about to get going,” said Slob.
The minister further said that he is “very happy” that children can return to school after eight weeks. “And I even hear from parents of children who didn’t like school so much that they make sense again. I hope they keep it that way.”
A lot of Dutch citizens have more psychological complaints about their own well-being since the Coronavirus outbreak. That says the Dutch newspaper Trouw based on a poll of the Trimbos Institute. People who filled in the poll said they have more depressed feelings, sleep problems and fears. The institute asked 3000 Dutch citizens from 18 years old. Almost 40 per cent experienced more stress since the Coronavirus outbreak. They have concerns about their finances and people from this group experience more stress, 60 per cent of this financial group experiences fears and depressed feelings. Half of the answers of the poll said to have sleep problems and thinks about wanting to be dead. This poll is not really representative as there were 83 per cent of respondents are a woman and a few were under 30 years.
Update 9 May 2020:
As we have the Coronavirus pandemic at the moment people have been advised to go on holidays in our own country. People have booked a holiday in holiday parks in The Netherlands or going to camp in The Netherlands.
The new financial support package from the cabinet will be different from the one we have at this moment. The financial support package we have right now ends on the 1st of June. The cabinet expects to present the new package within a few weeks. On some points, they still have to discuss, but the cabinet also told already that the conditions will be different. One of the rules is — when the company asks for this support package and paying the most part of the salary of the employees after the 1st of June — is not allowed to pay dividend and bonuses or buy other portions. At the other side, the fines will get lost from the conditions if the company fires employees because of business economical reasons while they ask for the financial support package. That says Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Koolmees in a talk show ‘Op1’. The Dutch talk show ‘Op1’ will be without any audience. From the 1st of June 30 people are allowed to come together. “That has no perceptive.”, Says WNL-director Bert Huisjes on behalf of the other broadcast studios BNNVARA, EO and MAX. “The crew quickly consists of 20 people, with cameramen, director, editors and a floor manager. With the audience, it would be quite difficult to keep a distance of one and a half meters.”, Huisjes said. “A larger studio is not just a solution. There are not many of them and they are expensive. We are now making a lot of extra programs, on seven instead of five evenings and deeper into the summer. There are costs involved.” Huisjes do not regret it. “It is what it is. And the ratings are no less.” Even if 100 people are allowed to be in the studio from July onwards, the broadcasters do not yet know whether they will receive an audience again. “Creating a very complicated audience system on top of the complicated process of a talk show would be challenging.” It is not yet known whether the Dutch programme ‘Beau’ will soon be together with the public again on RTL 4.
Virologist Marion Koopmans of the Erasmus MC said she will expect another Corona peak. “How big it is, we control that in part with our own behaviour,” she says in an interview with the Dutch newspaper AD. It also depends on how many people behave how we have been asked to behave. “If everyone who has had it is permanently immune, it will be easy. If no one is immune, you will continue to experience large waves.” An investigation of immunity is currently underway.
Epidemiologist Arnold Bosman is worried about the protocol that will be used to do researched for source and contacts when someone has symptoms of the Coronavirus. Everybody needs to be tested next months. “That protocol has two major weaknesses,” told Bosman in the Dutch news program ‘Nieuwsuur’. The suspicious cases must be reported and monitoring the contacts of infected cases.
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. Subscribe to my mailing list and subscribe to my Thoughts.
