Daily report march 24, The Netherlands

New positives:       811
Total positives:     5560
New deaths:              63
Total deaths:            276
Total admissions:  1495 (present and former)

Under the total positives are 594 people who work in care. They are tested sooner, more often and more people are tested.

Those who died were in age between 55 and 97.

The total admissions are those who have been in hospital and are still in hospital.


Noord Brabant, 1739 positive tested.
Zuid Holland      758
Noord-Holland   740

Today 59 coronapatiënts admitted to the IC. Now a total of 546 people.
IC capacity has gone up to 925

The national figures are distorted because hospitals are not always able to report deaths and positives immediately. But they are correct over time.

The RIVM will conduct research within families. Results are not expected within the next 6 weeks. Schools won't reopen before the data are available.

Extra 4 million Euro for foodbanks.

Yesterday 50 patients were distributed over the country with the help of the army.
During the weekend 160 were replaced and today 100. Corona and other IC patients.

CWZ in Nijmegen provides a digital coronacheck. It doesn't replace the test.

The King visited the place in Tilburg where the first coronapatient was diagnosed at febr 27. The workers there explained a lot about the way they deal with the outbreak and which procedures they need to follow.
Then he listened in at the callcenter.
He was quarantained until last saturday after he returned from travelling abroad.

Ear-examination of babies is postponed.

The National Remembrance Service of The Netherlands of May 4 will be without public. The King will speak. Details will follow.

The Mayor of Bergamo, the worst hit town of Italy, told the Netherlands to increase measures.
Many of the people who came from Italy to Noord Brabant came from this area. Noord Brabant is the worst hit area of The Netherlands.
Dutch officials wonder how he is able to know precisely what is happening here when his attention should be on his own country. We have a completely different health system, with one of the main differences the activities and amount of GPs

Midwifes have observed an increase in home deliveries. Not that the hospitals are closed for them, but women consider it to be safer at home.
In The Netherlands a long tradition exists of homedeliveries, so the midwifes are perfectly prepared.
Contact is kept to a minimal, with questions per mail and only check of bloodpressure and the growth of the baby.

At St. Maarten the first digital vote in the Kingsom of the Netherlands to establish a law has been executed.

The Dutch Government will subsidise initiatives for digital contact and new technologies in case, e-health, with max. 50.000 euro per request

A farmer in Zeewolde has organised 'drive through quarantiane packages'. They're filled with potatoes and vegetables.
People first pay online and then can drive to the package. This way contacts are completely avoided.

Churches will stay open for individual visitors, but will conduct public services online.

The exams were first cancelled by some schools.
They considered the guideliness of social distancing more important, and they also felt they had lost grip on the preparations for the exams.
Later this morning the national exam was cancelled and schools told they can value the pupils based on the schoolexams.
Up to april 6 no physical exams in MBO.

In Amsterdam the Het Acibadem International Medical Center has offered doctors, nurses, other careworkers, equipment, 4 operatingrooms, rooms and beds to the OLGV hospital.
Als PPE materials will be given. Some of the doctors offered to receive extra education to enable them to work in the OLGV

In the North of the country thousands of people are needed in carehomes. Experienced and unexperienced, without symptoms.

One helicopter has been changed into a mobile intensive care and was immediately used to bring a patient from the south to the north.

2 suspects have been arrested. They tried to lure a hospital into paying for masks that probably not even existed.

Payments with contactless systems are upped to 50 euro each time. Last week the total for a day was increased to 100 euro.

The elderly and vulnerable should communicate their wishes now, so families know how to act when they have symptoms.
The results of ventilation on the elderly are often not good.

The army ordered more than 80 military to return to The Netherlands.
6 to 7 soldiers tested positive.

The government wants faster and better European support for farmers, fishers etc

This morning a new service of Homecare was opened. It's for elderly who live on their own with help of care, but whose carers can't come.
Many phoned though with other questions.
People need to request help in their own town, but all requests and questions etc will be reported to the ministery.

Supermarkets and chemists limit people in the shop, to 1 per 10m2. Trollys should be used.

Masks arrived that didn't fit the faces. People near the hospital are looking if they can make a factory to produce them themselves.