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Thousands of doctors' assistants who indicated they wanted to help with the Covid-19 vaccination campaign have not received a response from municipal health service GGD. Despite the GGD needing six thousand more people to help carry out the national vaccination process, assistants are rarely called to help because the health service prefers to hire people through temporary employment agencies, Parool …

Jaap van Delden is leaving his position as the Covid-19 vaccination program director at public health agency RIVM, the organization announced on Monday. Van Delden was recently at the receiving end of criticism for saying that the Netherlands would not move forward with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, at a time when the country's leadership was also promoting the vaccination of …

The millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that the Netherlands will receive after mid-May will mostly not be used, predicts the head of vaccinations at the Dutch public health center RIVM, Jaap van Delden. Van Delden admits to the newspaper that the government does not know exactly how many injections have been performed so far, because the registration of …

Adults living in the Netherlands will not be able to choose which Covid-19 vaccine they receive as long as there is a shortage in the supply of vaccine doses. That could lead to missing targets and not getting enough adults vaccinated by the summer, said Jaap van Delden from the public health agency RIVM on Thursday. Van Delden was however …