We can prepare for a summer with festivals but should stay cautious: De Jong
3 years, 7 months ago

We can prepare for a summer with festivals but should stay cautious: De Jong

NL Times  

Festivals, concerts and other events can start as early as June 5 provided attendees present a negative coronavirus test. This is good news, but we should still be mindful that infection numbers can rise quickly, said virologist and member of the Outbreak Management, Menno de Jong, to AT5. “Festivals like Lowlands are possible but we should not become overly confident.” The Cabinet also stated they plan on loosening further restrictions ahead of time on June 30. The virologist said that infection numbers and hospitals admissions still need to continue to go down but is hopeful that, “they will continue to decline. De Jong warned that coronavirus mutations to which current vaccinations might not respond well to could put a damper on the continuation of festivals from the end of June.

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Summer brings COVID-19 uptick amid renewed travel, socializing. How bad will it get?
1 year, 5 months ago

Summer brings COVID-19 uptick amid renewed travel, socializing. How bad will it get?

LA Times  

Summer has brought an uptick in coronavirus transmission, but experts say it is still too early to tell whether the upswing represents a significant public health concern. “This comes at a time when people’s collective immunity is waning,” said UC San Francisco infectious-disease expert Dr. Peter Chin-Hong. In L.A. County, public health officials have noted small increases in transmission but …

Coronavirus will be with us this winter, experts tell Nu.nl
2 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus will be with us this winter, experts tell Nu.nl

Dutch News  

The Netherlands should be prepared to deal with a flare up in coronavirus in the coming months, even though the World Health Organisation has said the end of the pandemic is in sight, according to virologist Marion Koopmans. ‘And in the winter, in particular, hospitals cannot deal with much more.’ Koopmans, a professor at the Erasmus teaching hospital in Rotterdam, …

Coronavirus will be with us this winter, experts tell Nu.nl
2 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus will be with us this winter, experts tell Nu.nl

Dutch News  

The Netherlands should be prepared to deal with a flare up in coronavirus in the coming months, even though the World Health Organisation has said the end of the pandemic is in sight, according to virologist Marion Koopmans. ‘And in the winter, in particular, hospitals cannot deal with much more.’ Koopmans, a professor at the Erasmus teaching hospital in Rotterdam, …

Coronavirus Today: Will COVID-19 take a summer vacation?
2 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus Today: Will COVID-19 take a summer vacation?

LA Times  

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Carnival, winter sports and no rules: coronavirus cases rise
2 years, 10 months ago

Carnival, winter sports and no rules: coronavirus cases rise

Dutch News  

The number of positive coronavirus tests registered in the Netherlands reached over 48,500 in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning, and that is the highest number in two weeks. The combination of winter sports holidays, the carnival celebrations and the end of most coronavirus measures are likely to be behind the increase, health experts say. Wednesday’s coronavirus cases in NL: …

Crowds swarming coronavirus test locations after Carnival parties
2 years, 10 months ago

Crowds swarming coronavirus test locations after Carnival parties

NL Times  

The coronavirus test locations in the provinces of Noord-Brabant and Limburg, as well as the Twente region, have become quite a bit busier after the recent Carnival celebrations. In the south of Limburg, 4,250 coronavirus tests were taken on Wednesday at the GGD test centers. In the region around Den Bosch and Tilburg, it will also be busier in the …

More coronavirus restrictions could come in for Christmas, says De Jonge
3 years ago

More coronavirus restrictions could come in for Christmas, says De Jonge

Dutch News  

Tougher coronavirus restrictions may be needed as early as next week if the worst fears about the Omicron variant are realised, health minister Hugo de Jonge has said. On Thursday more than 88,000 positive tests were reported in the UK, a record for a 24-hour period, and infections are doubling every two days. The number of patients in hospital has …

More coronavirus restrictions could come in for Christmas, says De Jonge
3 years ago

More coronavirus restrictions could come in for Christmas, says De Jonge

Dutch News  

Tougher coronavirus restrictions may be needed as early as next week if the worst fears about the Omicron variant are realised, health minister Hugo de Jonge has said. On Thursday more than 88,000 positive tests were reported in the UK, a record for a 24-hour period, and infections are doubling every two days. The number of patients in hospital has …

Germans celebrate Carnival again despite high virus numbers
3 years, 1 month ago

Germans celebrate Carnival again despite high virus numbers

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Carnival revelers in the western Germany city of Cologne were lining up Thursday to show proof of their COVID-19 vaccinations before they could begin the start of the outdoors celebrations — after a hiatus due to the pandemic last year. Despite strict pandemic rules, the start of the carnival season was overshadowed by a coronavirus infection of Cologne’s …

Health chief does not expect winter curfews despite coronavirus case rise
3 years, 2 months ago

Health chief does not expect winter curfews despite coronavirus case rise

Dutch News  

New shop and school closures, or a curfew, are not likely to be imposed in the Netherlands this winter, despite the surge in new coronavirus cases, Jaap van Dissel, head of the government’s Outbreak Management Team, has told the AD in an interview. Thanks to vaccination, the Netherlands is in a ‘different situation’ to last year and the Delta variant …

Mass gatherings should be discouraged ahead of upcoming festive season: Centre
3 years, 4 months ago

Mass gatherings should be discouraged ahead of upcoming festive season: Centre

Hindustan Times  

The Centre said on Thursday that mass gatherings should be discouraged amid the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic, particularly in the upcoming festive season. Niti Aayog Member Dr V K Paul said people have to be careful in the upcoming festive season, adding despite the vaccination programme accelerating in the country, the precautions against Covid-19 must continue. Echoing his concerns, Niti …

Event Builders "diasppointed" at new festival restrictions but say they are understandable
3 years, 5 months ago

Event Builders "diasppointed" at new festival restrictions but say they are understandable

NL Times  

The Alliance of Event Builders said they are “disappointed and sad” but can comprehend the government’s decision to limit the maximum capacity of one-day festivals to 750 visitors until September 1. “With the ban on events without fixed seating for more than 750 visitors until September 1, the events sector has to digest another difficult disappointment”, the alliance, consisting of …

Vaccination certificate should no longer grant access to events: OMT member De Jong
3 years, 5 months ago

Vaccination certificate should no longer grant access to events: OMT member De Jong

NL Times  

Vaccination and recovery certificates should no longer be sufficient to grant access to events, virologist and member of the Outbreak Management Team, Menno de Jong said in an interview with AT5. “You can end up in a situation where people with a vaccination certificate and a mild infection enter a club and infect those not vaccinated.” From Tuesday onwards, only …

1,000 people at Utrecht festival infected with coronavirus
3 years, 6 months ago

1,000 people at Utrecht festival infected with coronavirus

Dutch News  

Around 1,000 visitors to a festival in Utrecht held over the first weekend in July are now known to have picked up coronavirus there. In total, 20,000 people attended the Verknipt outdoor festival and the infections were spread over both days, according to local health board figures. It is the first time so many infections have been traced back to …

1,000 people at Utrecht festival infected with coronavirus
3 years, 6 months ago

1,000 people at Utrecht festival infected with coronavirus

Dutch News  

Around 1,000 visitors to a festival in Utrecht held over the first weekend in July are now known to have picked up coronavirus there. In total, 20,000 people attended the Verknipt outdoor festival and the infections were spread over both days, according to local health board figures. It is the first time so many infections have been traced back to …

Coronavirus press conference tonight, 'test for entry' system may be dropped
3 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus press conference tonight, 'test for entry' system may be dropped

Dutch News  

Prime minister Mark Rutte and health minister Hugo de Jonge will hold a press conference at 7pm on Friday to announce what measures are being taken to control the spread of coronavirus following a six-fold increase in a week. The new measures are needed because several million people have still not been fully vaccinated and the infection rate has now …

Coronavirus press conference tonight, 'test for entry' system may be dropped
3 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus press conference tonight, 'test for entry' system may be dropped

Dutch News  

Prime minister Mark Rutte and health minister Hugo de Jonge will hold a press conference at 7pm on Friday to announce what measures are being taken to control the spread of coronavirus following a six-fold increase in a week. The new measures are needed because several million people have still not been fully vaccinated and the infection rate has now …

As coronavirus cases surge, summer holidays may be in doubt
3 years, 6 months ago

As coronavirus cases surge, summer holidays may be in doubt

Dutch News  

New European travel advice for the Netherlands may be disappointing because of the sudden rise in coronavirus cases, and this could mean Dutch holidaymakers having to quarantine abroad, health minister Hugo de Jonge has warned. The European centre for infectious diseases ECDC bases its assessment on the number of positive cases in each EU state over the past 14 days …

As coronavirus cases surge, summer holidays may be in doubt
3 years, 6 months ago

As coronavirus cases surge, summer holidays may be in doubt

Dutch News  

New European travel advice for the Netherlands may be disappointing because of the sudden rise in coronavirus cases, and this could mean Dutch holidaymakers having to quarantine abroad, health minister Hugo de Jonge has warned. The European centre for infectious diseases ECDC bases its assessment on the number of positive cases in each EU state over the past 14 days …

Dutch virologist worried about effects of rushed reopening
3 years, 6 months ago

Dutch virologist worried about effects of rushed reopening

NL Times  

Virologist Marion Koopmans has voiced her concerns over the effects of relaxation of Coronavirus restrictions, Dagblad van het Noorden reported. ”If the numbers continue to rise, I wonder whether really large gatherings, such as festivals, would be a good idea this summer without further measures,” she said. Koopmans was an advocate for changing the rule that says a second vaccine …

Coronavirus in the Netherlands: what changes from June 26
3 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus in the Netherlands: what changes from June 26

Dutch News  

From June 26 most of the coronavirus measures in the Netherlands are ending – and many clubs already opened at midnight for people with a negative test or who had been vaccinated. Bars, restaurants, cafes, cinemas, concert halls and everywhere with fixed seating can reopen with 1.5 metre distancing and without if they use ‘test for entry’ checks on all …

OMT member De Jong warns not to abandon all caution as restrictions relax
3 years, 6 months ago

OMT member De Jong warns not to abandon all caution as restrictions relax

NL Times  

The coronavirus crisis is definitely improving, Outbreak Management Team member and virologist at the Amsterdam UMC Menno de Jong said in an interview with AT5. “We hear from the Cabinet that things are going well, but less about uncertainties”, De Jong said. We’ve never seen that.” De Jong said that flu season also needs to be taken into account. If …

Fieldlab says events can be organised safely despite coronavirus
3 years, 7 months ago

Fieldlab says events can be organised safely despite coronavirus

Dutch News  

Events with large numbers of visitors can be held safely even if the coronavirus infection rates are still high, the organisers of the Fieldlab experiments said on Thursday. The organisation, a joint project between the events industry and three government ministries, bases its claim on the results of 24 events held in recent weeks and attended by some 60,000 people, …

Fieldlab says events can be organised safely despite coronavirus
3 years, 7 months ago

Fieldlab says events can be organised safely despite coronavirus

Dutch News  

Events with large numbers of visitors can be held safely even if the coronavirus infection rates are still high, the organisers of the Fieldlab experiments said on Thursday. The organisation, a joint project between the events industry and three government ministries, bases its claim on the results of 24 events held in recent weeks and attended by some 60,000 people, …

Ministers meet to discuss pandemic; virologist de Jong says its 'too early to relax the corona measures'
3 years, 9 months ago

Ministers meet to discuss pandemic; virologist de Jong says its 'too early to relax the corona measures'

NL Times  

Menno de Jong, a virologist at the Amsterdam UMC and member of the Outbreak Management Team, sees no room yet to further relax the corona measures, now that the number of infections is increasing again. Catshuis meeting on Sunday Several ministers direct involved with tackling the coronavirus crisis will meet on Sunday at the Catshuis, the Prime Minister's official address, …

Coronavirus-safe festival trials rained off
3 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus-safe festival trials rained off

Dutch News  

Two trial festivals in tents in have been postponed due to bad expected weather this weekend. The ‘back to live’ events, which were to have tested coronavirus-proofing measures, were rained off on Friday. They had been planned on the Walibi Holland grounds in Biddinghuizen which have been specially developed in order to experiement on a safe return to mass events. …

500 guests attend a conference, and 63,000 sign up for festival experiment
3 years, 11 months ago

500 guests attend a conference, and 63,000 sign up for festival experiment

Dutch News  

Some 63,000 people have signed up to attend two festivals next month, as part of experiments to assess how and if the coronavirus restrictions can be eased at big public events. The dates for the festivals were published on Sunday evening and by 7pm, 63,000 people had registered to take part, organiser Pieter Lubbers told television talk show Jinek on …

500 guests attend a conference, and 63,000 sign up for festival experiment
3 years, 11 months ago

500 guests attend a conference, and 63,000 sign up for festival experiment

Dutch News  

Some 63,000 people have signed up to attend two festivals next month, as part of experiments to assess how and if the coronavirus restrictions can be eased at big public events. The dates for the festivals were published on Sunday evening and by 7pm, 63,000 people had registered to take part, organiser Pieter Lubbers told television talk show Jinek on …

Citizens prepare for Spring Festival despite COVID-19 measures
3 years, 11 months ago

Citizens prepare for Spring Festival despite COVID-19 measures

China Daily  

Although Yang Yang likes traveling, the Beijinger has decided to stay at home for the upcoming Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, which falls on Feb 12. The bank employee has preordered takeaway from one of China's best-known roast duck chain restaurants Quanjude for his family banquet on Spring Festival's eve. Compared with last Lunar New Year, when their family …

Coronavirus | First phase of vaccination to start on January 16
4 years ago

Coronavirus | First phase of vaccination to start on January 16

The Hindu  

India’s COVID vaccination drive is scheduled to start on January 16 with priority given to an estimated three crore healthcare workers and the frontline workers, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. Coronavirus | I would not take the vaccine without efficacy data: Gagandeep Kang People’s participation “The vaccination exercise will use the principles of people’s participation, experience of elections and …

Year-end covid curve could be shaped by past festival lessons
4 years ago

Year-end covid curve could be shaped by past festival lessons

Live Mint  

For months, covid-19 blossomed in India despite muted public movement. Most festival-related outbreaks since August have come within days of an extraordinary rise in public mobility, the data show. Delhi’s severe third wave around Dussehra was also preceded by some rise in mobility, though pollution and the winter could also have been dominant causes. Most festival-related covid surges were preceded …

Coronavirus press conference tonight: No relaxation expected
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus press conference tonight: No relaxation expected

NL Times  

Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Public Health Minister Hugo de Jonge will hold a press conference at 7:00 p.m. this evening to tell residents of the Netherlands what the festive season will look like in terms of coronavirus restrictions. The Netherlands has been in a partial lockdown since mid-October, involving restrictions like restaurants being closed to everything but takeaways, and …

Dutch life unlikely to return to normal before summer; No Christmas parties: RIVM leader
4 years, 1 month ago

Dutch life unlikely to return to normal before summer; No Christmas parties: RIVM leader

NL Times  

As the coronavirus infections in the Netherlands stand now, Christmas will have to be celebrated on a very small scale, according to RIVM director Jaap van Dissel. If enough people get vaccinated, the country will build up enough herd immunity to return back to normal by summer, he said to Nieuwsuur. If the number of ICU admissions had dropped to …

Gov't advised to extend Christmas school holidays, not relax other measures
4 years, 1 month ago

Gov't advised to extend Christmas school holidays, not relax other measures

NL Times  

The Outbreak Management Team advised the government to look into whether the school holidays over Christmas can be extended by a week. As Covid-19 infections are still high, no further relaxation of measures is advised, sources told NOS and RTL Nieuws. Over the past days, the number of coronavirus infections remained at a high level and there is still a …

A winter surge in COVID-19 cases seems inevitable. Can we stop it?
4 years, 1 month ago

A winter surge in COVID-19 cases seems inevitable. Can we stop it?

LA Times  

Because of a surge in coronavirus cases, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has expand testing hours at Dodger Stadium, where a long line formed Wednesday evening. “Saying a surge is inevitable may sound like fatalism,” said William Hanage, an epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. “But just because some surge of some size is inevitable, it doesn’t mean the size is inevitable.” …

India’s festive season spawns fears of renewed coronavirus surge
4 years, 2 months ago

India’s festive season spawns fears of renewed coronavirus surge

Live Mint  

Just weeks after India fully opened up from a harsh lockdown and began to modestly turn a corner by cutting new coronavirus infections by near half, a festival season is raising fears that a fresh surge could spoil the hard-won gains. “I’d be very worried about what we are going to see in India,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean …

Coronavirus has cancelled major events and it may be a while before we are ready to return to crowds
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus has cancelled major events and it may be a while before we are ready to return to crowds

ABC  

Football without crowds, stadiums without concerts and festivals on the chopping block — COVID-19 has ushered in an uncertain new era for major public events. "We simply don't know what the social distancing requirements are going to be at that time and I guess everybody can understand, if you've got 300,000 people sitting around the Swan River watching a fireworks …

Gov't only to allow "massive events" once there is a coronavirus vaccine
4 years, 8 months ago

Gov't only to allow "massive events" once there is a coronavirus vaccine

NL Times  

"Massive events" can only be held again in the Netherlands once there is a vaccine against the coronavirus, Minister Hugo de Jonge of Public Health said in a letter to parliament regarding the government's step-by-step plan to relax the Covid-19 lockdown. "For the last step, the massive events with a national quality, we can not yet give a date," the …

Will coronavirus go away when summer gets going?
4 years, 9 months ago

Will coronavirus go away when summer gets going?

India Today  

There has been talk that novel coronavirus spread would slow down as summer gains strength in the northern hemisphere. The limited impact of novel coronavirus pandemic in the southern hemisphere has also been cited as collaborative evidence for this "speculation" about Covid-19 spread. Analysing the data of Covid-19 spread till March 22, the authors of the paper say, "Based on …

Here Are Some Of The Major Cultural Events Upended By The Coronavirus Outbreak
4 years, 9 months ago

Here Are Some Of The Major Cultural Events Upended By The Coronavirus Outbreak

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING As the coronavirus outbreak spreads worldwide, at least two countries — China, where COVID-19 began, and Italy — have essentially shut down, restricting major events and asking residents to stay home unless travel is absolutely necessary. In the U.S., officials in metropolitan areas where the outbreak is growing, such as New York, San Francisco and Seattle, have …

When coronavirus fears threaten big gatherings, remember this (opinion)
4 years, 10 months ago

When coronavirus fears threaten big gatherings, remember this (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and author of the book “The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness.” Follow her on Twitter. We have a President who appears more concerned about his image than the public’s wellbeing, who “systematically dismantled” the very government programs and preparedness mechanisms that would have been able to manage this …

Citing coronavirus concerns, Alhambra postpones Lunar New Year festival
4 years, 11 months ago

Citing coronavirus concerns, Alhambra postpones Lunar New Year festival

LA Times  

A woman stands near decorations marking the Lunar New Year holiday in Beijing on Monday. California cities are wary of hosting New Year celebrations amid coronavirus fears. The city of Alhambra has postponed its Lunar New Year Festival after multiple vendors asked to withdraw from the event, citing fears over the growing coronavirus outbreak. On Tuesday, city officials said that …

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