Municipal health services to do more coronavirus tests from next week
4 years, 8 months ago

Municipal health services to do more coronavirus tests from next week

NL Times  

Starting on May 6, the municipal health services GGD will test more people for the coronavirus, Jan Woldman of GGD GHOR Nederland said in a briefing to parliament. The Netherlands' special coronavirus envoy Feike Sijbesma told the parliamentarians that Dutch laboratories have enough capacity to test everyone in the Netherlands with coronavirus symptoms today. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Health told NL Times something similar, when asked why the Netherlands did not take a German lab up on its offer to do some 5 thousand coronavirus tests per day for the Netherlands. Testing material is not the only medical supply that is hard to get hold of, Rob van der Kolk of the National Consortium for Medical Supplies said in his briefing.

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Continue COVID-19 testing to check emergence of new virus variants: WHO chief
1 year, 4 months ago

Continue COVID-19 testing to check emergence of new virus variants: WHO chief

The Hindu  

Warning that many countries aren’t testing enough and that new SARS-CoV-2 virus variants may emerge, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, on Wednesday said that testing and being vigilant is vital in continuing the fight against COVID-19. “While COVID is now behind us and India did its best during the time, we can expect new and more …

Netherlands makes negative coronavirus test mandatory for travelers from China
2 years ago

Netherlands makes negative coronavirus test mandatory for travelers from China

NL Times  

Travelers arriving in the Netherlands from China will need a negative coronavirus test starting next Tuesday. Health Minister Ernst Kuipers decided to order the restriction after other European member states had already taken similar measures. Kuipers had asked the Eerste Kamer, the upper house of Parliament, to come back from recess so that the senators could urgently deal with a …

More EU countries demand negative coronavirus test for travelers from China
2 years ago

More EU countries demand negative coronavirus test for travelers from China

NL Times  

Germany, Greece, Austria, and Sweden are asking for proof of a negative coronavirus test from people traveling in from China. The four European countries are taking precautions partly because the European Union said on Wednesday evening in new advice about China that tests are, “Strongly recommended.” It was also advised to wear face masks on flights from China and to …

Niesters: Illusion to think you can stop coronavirus
2 years ago

Niesters: Illusion to think you can stop coronavirus

NL Times  

Whether it is right for the government to offer travelers from China only a voluntary self-test for the coronavirus, virologist Bert Niesters does not know. The virologist explained that he is sometimes shocked at the number of people infected on flights from China. That is why, according to Niesters, it is important for China to continue testing for the coronavirus …

Prominent Dutch virologist: Coronavirus test for travelers from China is a good idea
2 years ago

Prominent Dutch virologist: Coronavirus test for travelers from China is a good idea

NL Times  

A mandatory negative coronavirus test for people traveling from China is a good idea if that rule is implemented across all of Europe, said prominent virologist Ab Osterhaus. Currently, travelers from China have to complete a coronavirus test on arrival in Italy, but the Dutch Ministry of Health has said it does not intend to implement new restrictions at this …

More coronavirus patients admitted to hospital, positive tests rise 55%
2 years, 3 months ago

More coronavirus patients admitted to hospital, positive tests rise 55%

Dutch News  

The number of coronavirus patients admitted to hospital has risen sharply over the past seven days and positive tests are also going up, public health institute RIVM said in its weekly Tuesday update. Over 19,000 positive tests were also recorded by regional health centres, a rise of 55% on a week ago. The figures do not reflect the true number …

More coronavirus patients admitted to hospital, positive tests rise 55%
2 years, 3 months ago

More coronavirus patients admitted to hospital, positive tests rise 55%

Dutch News  

The number of coronavirus patients admitted to hospital has risen sharply over the past seven days and positive tests are also going up, public health institute RIVM said in its weekly Tuesday update. Over 19,000 positive tests were also recorded by regional health centres, a rise of 55% on a week ago. The figures do not reflect the true number …

Health services frantically recruiting people to administer new round of Covid vaccines
2 years, 5 months ago

Health services frantically recruiting people to administer new round of Covid vaccines

NL Times  

The 25 GGDs in the Netherlands need an estimated 13,000 employees for the new coronavirus vaccination campaign starting this autumn. Recruiting this many people is a massive task, especially given the tight labor market, AD reports after speaking to the health services. A big problem is that many of the GGD workers who worked on the previous vaccination rounds now …

About 350 Covid-19 patients in hospitals; Only 1,400 tested daily for coronavirus
2 years, 7 months ago

About 350 Covid-19 patients in hospitals; Only 1,400 tested daily for coronavirus

NL Times  

Hospitals in the Netherlands were treating 354 patients with Covid-19 on Monday. That was 21 percent lower than a week earlier, when 447 people were receiving treatment for the disease, figures from the LCPS showed. The RIVM said on Tuesday that 7,088 people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus during the preceding seven days. The GGD found 619 people who …

What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
2 years, 9 months ago

What you need to know about the coronavirus right now

Hindustan Times  

Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Health workers tests for Covid outside of a clothing market in Shanghai, China. China's local symptomatic Covid-19 cases nearly double Mainland China reported 402 locally transmitted Covid-19 infections with confirmed symptoms for March 9, official data showed on Thursday, nearly doubling from the daily count a day earlier. Hong …

At long last, WHO issues coronavirus testing advice
2 years, 9 months ago

At long last, WHO issues coronavirus testing advice

LA Times  

A woman is tested for a coronavirus infection at the Lenasia South Hospital near Johannesburg in South Africa. The advice comes months after critics said the lack of recommendations from the global health agency was compromising efforts to stop the pandemic in poor countries. At a press briefing on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency was concerned …

Sweden ends coronavirus testing along with all pandemic restrictions
2 years, 11 months ago

Sweden ends coronavirus testing along with all pandemic restrictions

LA Times  

Sweden has halted wide-scale testing for the coronavirus even among people showing COVID-19 symptoms, putting an end to the pop-up tents, drive-in swab centers and home-delivered tests that became ubiquitous during the pandemic and provided essential data for tracking its spread. Bharat Pankhania, a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School in England, said that with a …

Netherlands records its 5 millionth coronavirus infection
2 years, 11 months ago

Netherlands records its 5 millionth coronavirus infection

NL Times  

The number of positive coronavirus tests in the Netherlands topped 5 million on Tuesday. Between Monday morning and Tuesday morning, hundreds of thousands of backlogged infection results were entered into the institute’s database, bringing the total on Tuesday far above 5 million. Considering the average number of daily infections is about 87,000, the 5 millionth infection was likely diagnosed on …

New Covid record set with over 75,000 infections; Hospital total up 6% in a week
2 years, 11 months ago

New Covid record set with over 75,000 infections; Hospital total up 6% in a week

NL Times  

Some 75,199 people tested positive for Covid-19 between Saturday and Sunday morning, the RIVM said. The GGD tested a record high 1.02 million samples during that time, meaning the GGD alone diagnosed about 534 thousand new infections those days. The seven day moving average increased to set another new record on Sunday. Hospitals admitted 150 patients with Covid-19 in the …

39,500 positive Covid tests but 122,000 go uncounted; Over 50% tested by GGD are infected
2 years, 11 months ago

39,500 positive Covid tests but 122,000 go uncounted; Over 50% tested by GGD are infected

NL Times  

Over 39,500 coronavirus infections were reported in the Netherlands on Saturday, the lowest total in 10 days––but at least 46,000 positive tests diagnosed since Friday morning have not been registered in the systems of the RIVM. Saturday’s underreporting from the RIVM brought the official seven-day moving average down slightly to 60,181, still 60 percent higher compared to a week ago. …

GGDs to use commercial coronavirus tests to deal with surging demand
2 years, 11 months ago

GGDs to use commercial coronavirus tests to deal with surging demand

Dutch News  

Commercial coronavirus tests will be used from next week to relieve the strain on local health services caused by a surge in infections since the start of the year. GGD GHOR, the network of local health services, confirmed that people would be offered certified antigen tests, arranged through Stichting Open Nederland, if no local testing facility was available. ‘If a …

GGDs to use commercial coronavirus tests to deal with surging demand
2 years, 11 months ago

GGDs to use commercial coronavirus tests to deal with surging demand

Dutch News  

Commercial coronavirus tests will be used from next week to relieve the strain on local health services caused by a surge in infections since the start of the year. GGD GHOR, the network of local health services, confirmed that people would be offered certified antigen tests, arranged through Stichting Open Nederland, if no local testing facility was available. ‘If a …

Amsterdam stops walk-in coronavirus testing as demand soars
2 years, 11 months ago

Amsterdam stops walk-in coronavirus testing as demand soars

Dutch News  

Amsterdam’s regional health board has decided to stop offering coronavirus testing without appointments after long queues built up on several days. Demand According to the Volkskrant, health board test centres are currently dealing with 100,000 tests a day, setting a new record of 125,000 tests on Monday. On Wednesday, the health boards and test for entry foundation Stichting Open Nederland …

Amsterdam stops walk-in coronavirus testing as demand soars
2 years, 11 months ago

Amsterdam stops walk-in coronavirus testing as demand soars

Dutch News  

Amsterdam’s regional health board has decided to stop offering coronavirus testing without appointments after long queues built up on several days. Demand According to the Volkskrant, health board test centres are currently dealing with 100,000 tests a day, setting a new record of 125,000 tests on Monday. On Wednesday, the health boards and test for entry foundation Stichting Open Nederland …

Netherlands tops 35,000 coronavirus infections for first time; Hospital total falls further
2 years, 11 months ago

Netherlands tops 35,000 coronavirus infections for first time; Hospital total falls further

NL Times  

A total of 35,521 people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus between Thursday and Friday morning, setting a new single-day record in the Netherlands. In the 24 days since December 21, about 500,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus, surpassing the number of infections diagnosed during the entire month of November. Dutch hospitals admitted 120 new Covid-19 patients in the …

Coronavirus infections shoot back up towards 17,000; Amsterdam posts new record
3 years ago

Coronavirus infections shoot back up towards 17,000; Amsterdam posts new record

NL Times  

Some 16,796 residents of the Netherlands tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus between Thursday and Friday morning. In fact, the moving average was four percent higher compared to last Friday. Just in Amsterdam, 84 percent of positive coronavirus samples tested at random on Wednesday were found to contain the new variant. National testing by the GGD during the seven-day period …

Dutch Covid average below 20,000 for first time in weeks; GGD websites back online
3 years ago

Dutch Covid average below 20,000 for first time in weeks; GGD websites back online

NL Times  

For 21 days, the moving average for positive daily coronavirus tests held above the 20,000 mark. That changed on Saturday, when the seven-day average fell three percent in a day to 19,371, according to raw data from the RIVM. At the same time, the average number of people testing positive at the GGD rose to 24 percent, a new record. …

Confidence in Dutch coronavirus strategy hits all time low
3 years ago

Confidence in Dutch coronavirus strategy hits all time low

Dutch News  

Support for the government’s strategy to deal with coronavirus is now at an all-time low, with just 16% of people positive about what ministers are doing, according to the latest survey by public health institute RIVM. Yet even though 39% were neutral about the approach and 46% negative, the pandemic rules, such as working from home and keeping your distance, …

Corona self-testing now official government advice: but are there risks?
3 years, 1 month ago

Corona self-testing now official government advice: but are there risks?

Dutch News  

The Dutch government has announced that people with mild cold symptoms can take a self-test for coronavirus, rather than being advised to get an official test immediately. Bert Niesters, professor in medical microbiology at the University of Groningen UMGG, told NOS that with very sick patients, the tests were likely to be accurate ‘but the problem is people with mild …

Corona self-testing now official government advice: but are there risks?
3 years, 1 month ago

Corona self-testing now official government advice: but are there risks?

Dutch News  

The Dutch government has announced that people with mild cold symptoms can take a self-test for coronavirus, rather than being advised to get an official test immediately. Bert Niesters, professor in medical microbiology at the University of Groningen UMGG, told NOS that with very sick patients, the tests were likely to be accurate ‘but the problem is people with mild …

RIVM: Record 23,789 new coronavirus infections today
3 years, 1 month ago

RIVM: Record 23,789 new coronavirus infections today

NL Times  

The Netherlands set a new record for most coronavirus infections diagnosed in a single day. A total of 23,789 people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection between Tuesday and Wednesday morning, beating a record set last Thursday by a hundred. The new infection total pushed the seven-day moving average up to a new record for the 14th day straight. …

Weekly Covid infections up 40% to 154,000; Schoolchildren, parents infected more often
3 years, 1 month ago

Weekly Covid infections up 40% to 154,000; Schoolchildren, parents infected more often

NL Times  

The coronavirus is continuing to spread through the Netherlands at a fast rate. In the past week, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment registered 153,957 positive coronavirus tests. The number of positive tests is more than 39 percent higher than last week. The age group of 5- to 14-year-olds represented the highest number of positive tests last …

Dutch infections continue to soar: Nearly 21,000 positive tests today, hospital total hits 2,075
3 years, 1 month ago

Dutch infections continue to soar: Nearly 21,000 positive tests today, hospital total hits 2,075

NL Times  

The Netherlands broke its own coronavirus record for the third day straight with 20,829 new infections registered by the RIVM between Tuesday and Wednesday morning. There were 2,077 people being treated for Covid-19 in Dutch hospitals, a slight increase of six since Tuesday afternoon. The total on Wednesday included 402 patients in intensive care, a net increase of 17 after …

Record 110,000 coronavirus infections in a week, biggest rise in children
3 years, 1 month ago

Record 110,000 coronavirus infections in a week, biggest rise in children

Dutch News  

More than 110,000 people tested positive for coronavirus in the last seven days, equivalent to nearly six out of every 1,000 people living in the Netherlands. The latest weekly bulletin from the public health agency RIVM also showed 19.6% of all tests taken in the last week gave a positive result, up from 17.2% a week ago. By contrast, positive …

Record 110,000 coronavirus infections in a week, biggest rise in children
3 years, 1 month ago

Record 110,000 coronavirus infections in a week, biggest rise in children

Dutch News  

More than 110,000 people tested positive for coronavirus in the last seven days, equivalent to nearly six out of every 1,000 people living in the Netherlands. The latest weekly bulletin from the public health agency RIVM also showed 19.6% of all tests taken in the last week gave a positive result, up from 17.2% a week ago. By contrast, positive …

Netherlands sets records for daily coronavirus infections, positivity rate; Over 2,000 hospitalized
3 years, 1 month ago

Netherlands sets records for daily coronavirus infections, positivity rate; Over 2,000 hospitalized

NL Times  

Over 20 thousand people were diagnosed with an infection of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus between Monday and Tuesday morning, the first time that has happened in a single day since the start of the pandemic. About 19.6 percent of people tested by the GGD health services during last calendar week were diagnosed with the infection, the highest figure ever reported. It …

Over 100,000 positive Covid tests in Netherlands next week: ECDC
3 years, 1 month ago

Over 100,000 positive Covid tests in Netherlands next week: ECDC

NL Times  

The number of positive coronavirus tests in the Netherlands will continue to rise, the European health service ECDC expects. It calculates that 616 out of every 100,000 Netherlands residents will probably learn that they are infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus during the next calendar week. The Netherlands will likely be among some countries in the European Economic Area with the …

Dutch coronavirus avg. nears 10,000; Covid hospital total close to 1,500
3 years, 2 months ago

Dutch coronavirus avg. nears 10,000; Covid hospital total close to 1,500

NL Times  

The average number of daily coronavirus infections in the Netherlands has been on the rise for over a month, and on Sunday it topped 9,900. At the same time, the number of patients being treated for Covid-19 rose by 7 percent in a day to 1,490, with ICU figures at their highest point since early June. Coronavirus infections could surpass …

NL residents less willing to get tested when they have Covid symptoms
3 years, 2 months ago

NL residents less willing to get tested when they have Covid symptoms

NL Times  

Despite the number of coronavirus infections in the Netherlands skyrocketing in the past weeks, the willingness among Netherlands residents to get tested if they have symptoms is dwindling. And a survey by public health institute RIVM showed that only 40 percent of respondents with Covid-19 symptoms went to get tested, NOS reports. "It is so important to go to the …

Dutch government poised to bring back masks and broaden 'test for entry'
3 years, 2 months ago

Dutch government poised to bring back masks and broaden 'test for entry'

Dutch News  

Face masks are set to return and the ‘test for entry’ system will be extended to gyms, swimming pools and museums when the government announces new coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday, according to sources. The government will also urge people to revert to working from home 50% of the time, a month after social distancing was formally abolished and the work …

Dutch government poised to bring back masks and broaden 'test for entry'
3 years, 2 months ago

Dutch government poised to bring back masks and broaden 'test for entry'

Dutch News  

Face masks are set to return and the ‘test for entry’ system will be extended to gyms, swimming pools and museums when the government announces new coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday, according to sources. The government will also urge people to revert to working from home 50% of the time, a month after social distancing was formally abolished and the work …

Positive coronavirus tests rise 48% in a week, autumn rise is underway
3 years, 2 months ago

Positive coronavirus tests rise 48% in a week, autumn rise is underway

Dutch News  

The number of positive coronavirus tests in the Netherlands has gone up 48% in the past week, hitting nearly 18,000, public health institute RIVM said in its weekly Tuesday update. ‘The expected autumn rise in coronavirus cases would appear to have started,’ the RIVM said. More coronavirus has also been identified through waste water analysis and more people are also …

Netherlands expected to report 2 millionth positive coronavirus test today
3 years, 3 months ago

Netherlands expected to report 2 millionth positive coronavirus test today

NL Times  

The Netherlands will pass the 2 million coronavirus cases mark on Wednesday. On day 9 of the outbreak, an 86-year-old man from Oud-Beijerland became the first person in the Netherlands to die from the virus. It took until 6 February this year, day 346 of the outbreak, for the number of positive tests to exceed 1 million. The Gelderland villa …

Weekly coronavirus figures fall 11% but child infections up over 4%
3 years, 3 months ago

Weekly coronavirus figures fall 11% but child infections up over 4%

NL Times  

The number of new coronavirus infections diagnosed in the Netherlands fell during the past seven days by 11 percent to 15,976. The total number of national infections was at the lowest point since the week ending July 6, the first seven-day period of Delta variant infections. The decrease in infections, from nearly 18,000 the previous week, was achieved even as …

Nearly 2,600 test positive for coronavirus; Covid-19 ICU total bounces up
3 years, 4 months ago

Nearly 2,600 test positive for coronavirus; Covid-19 ICU total bounces up

NL Times  

Another 2,576 people in the Netherlands tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, data released by the RIVM on Friday showed. That brought the seven-day moving average down to 2,525, three percent lower than a week ago. Some 116 others from The Hague tested positive, which brought that city's mean to 126, up 14 percent in seven days. The patient total …

Travelers submitted to over 2.8 million coronavirus access tests this summer
3 years, 4 months ago

Travelers submitted to over 2.8 million coronavirus access tests this summer

NL Times  

Over 2.8 million appointments for free coronavirus tests were made by people who needed the tests to be able to travel in July and August, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said on Wednesday. Out of the total, 2.55 million appointments were made at a commercial test location using testvoorjereis.nl, and the other appointments were with scheduled at a …

People living further from corona test centres less likely to get tested
3 years, 4 months ago

People living further from corona test centres less likely to get tested

Dutch News  

People who live further away from coronavirus test centres are less likely to get tested, according to the Dutch statistics office. The CBS reports that although more centres opened, so the average distance to travel was 6.2km in January, the further away people live, the less likely they are to get a test. Between August 2020, when people lived on …

People living further from corona test centres less likely to get tested
3 years, 4 months ago

People living further from corona test centres less likely to get tested

Dutch News  

People who live further away from coronavirus test centres are less likely to get tested, according to the Dutch statistics office. The CBS reports that although more centres opened, so the average distance to travel was 6.2km in January, the further away people live, the less likely they are to get a test. Between August 2020, when people lived on …

Dutch hospitals struggling with Covid-deniers
3 years, 4 months ago

Dutch hospitals struggling with Covid-deniers

NL Times  

Hospitals throughout the Netherlands are dealing with seriously ill patients or family members who refuse to believe they have the coronavirus, because according to them it doesn't exist, AD reported after surveying hospitals. "We are sometimes told by relatives of those who have to be admitted to hospital with serious coronavirus symptoms: 'Just tell us what he really has, because …

All eight million households in NL to get two free fast coronavirus tests
3 years, 4 months ago

All eight million households in NL to get two free fast coronavirus tests

Dutch News  

All eight million households in the Netherlands will this month receive an letter inviting them to apply for two free coronavirus self tests, the first of which are due to arrive this week. ‘By testing, we are reducing the chance that we inadvertently take coronavirus to our family, work or school, and we prevent clusters.’ Regional health board workers will …

All eight million households in NL to get two free fast coronavirus tests
3 years, 4 months ago

All eight million households in NL to get two free fast coronavirus tests

Dutch News  

All eight million households in the Netherlands will this month receive an letter inviting them to apply for two free coronavirus self tests, the first of which are due to arrive this week. ‘By testing, we are reducing the chance that we inadvertently take coronavirus to our family, work or school, and we prevent clusters.’ Regional health board workers will …

GGD temporarily halts Covid testing for travel in six regions due to lab malfunction
3 years, 5 months ago

GGD temporarily halts Covid testing for travel in six regions due to lab malfunction

NL Times  

Six regional GGDs will no longer carry perform coronavirus tests for travel until at least Monday. People who live in these areas and made an appointment for a coronavirus test to travel must cancel their appointment via 0800-5005 and make a new appointment online. People who have already been tested and are waiting for the results must make a new …

More than 11,000 coronavirus cases, highest daily number since Christmas
3 years, 5 months ago

More than 11,000 coronavirus cases, highest daily number since Christmas

Dutch News  

More than 11,000 coronavirus cases were confirmed by the public health agency RIVM for the first time since Christmas, but the growth rate is slowing down. Today’s figure of 11,064 is twice as high as a week ago, but over the last seven days cases rose by an average of 445%, according to the RIVM’s figures. Rotterdam’s local health service …

More than 11,000 coronavirus cases, highest daily number since Christmas
3 years, 5 months ago

More than 11,000 coronavirus cases, highest daily number since Christmas

Dutch News  

More than 11,000 coronavirus cases were confirmed by the public health agency RIVM for the first time since Christmas, but the growth rate is slowing down. Today’s figure of 11,064 is twice as high as a week ago, but over the last seven days cases rose by an average of 445%, according to the RIVM’s figures. Rotterdam’s local health service …

GGD abandoned coronavirus breath tests over accuracy complaints
3 years, 5 months ago

GGD abandoned coronavirus breath tests over accuracy complaints

NL Times  

Health service GGD is not using the SpiroNose rapid coronavirus breath tests, which were purchased to be used in dozens of GGD locations throughout the country. The idea was that the breath test be used in line at GGD test locations, so that people could be sent home faster if they were negative. According to the Volkskrant, umbrella organization GGD …

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