Tonight a new press conference in NL. We will indeed easing measures as of the 5th of June instead of the 9th. We are talking indoor dining, reopening indoor museums, movie theaters, themeparks, swimming pools etc. all with restrictions.
Other news:
- 87% of our over 65 year olds are vaccinated. Lowest are some big cities, and our Bible Belt.
- Six of the national football team have chosen not to get vaccinated before the European Championship, it's not announced who they are. Like Olympic sporters there was some special program for professional sporters, but the choice of getting a vaccine was with the players.
- Another football player got caught in Brazil at an illegal Corona party, no masks, no distance. Let's consider him an idiot.
- Today it was published that some young people lied about having a chronical disease to get a shot before it was their turn. There are checks made at random, but to make sure there are not too many obstacles in getting a shot and discourage people it's not complicated to cheat. There are websites where it is explained how. Before some journalists who already tried it.
- Lately our vaccination program is speeding up. At the end of last week people from 1968 could make their appointments, now we are at 1975. So hopefully within the next two weeks it will be my turn
- NL is divided into 25 regions to monitor Covid. We have a 4 tier system, 2 regions have moved from the highest tier to the 3rd tier.
- The biggest hospital in Amsterdam is closing down one of their covid wards.
- We will have a program to spread people whose operation/treatment has been delayed over the different hospitals in the country. As we did with covid patients and ICU covid patients.
- We started vaccinating our military force.
- We will most likely get those free PCR tests for the summer holidays for people who cannot get vaccinated yet or for countries that ask for 2 shots (and you only had one).
- We will get the results of how many audience members at Eurovision tested positive. But it will be a few more weeks as they want to finalize the contact research. There were over 28K visitors during the several events, everyone had to get tested before the event. Afterwards was optional. At other test events about 60-80% did take the test afterwards.
- Four people who participated in the curfew-riots a few months ago were convicted to 2 weeks to 5 months in jail. Two of them also have to pay 86.000 euro in damages to the stores they destroyed.