Mr Rutte and Health Minister Hugo de Jonge on Friday reimposed a number of restrictions including closing nightclubs as the highly-infectious Delta variant took hold, particularly among young people.
But virologists fear that young people with Covid could spread it to other age groups who have not yet been vaccinated.The Dutch decision came under fire including from the health minister of neighbouring Belgium. The statement from the leaders of UNICEF and UNESCO, responsible for children's issues and education, said "governments have too often shut down schools and kept them closed for prolonged periods, even when the epidemiological situation didn't warrant it."
State Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the progress of that figure in coming days would determine whether Sydney's lockdown, due to end on Friday, would be extended. Sixty-three people are in hospital, with 18 in intensive care, officials said, while a woman in her 90s became the country's first Covid-19 fatality this year.
The Sydney outbreak has put Australia's sluggish vaccine roll-out under the microscope. Only around 11% of Australia's adult population of just over 20.5 million have been fully vaccinated.Official federal health guidance recommends the locally-produced AstraZeneca vaccine be restricted to people aged over 60 because of blood clot concerns, while the imported Pfizer vaccine is currently limited to people below 60.
Thailand has so far recorded more than 326,300 cases and 2,711 deaths, with the bulk of them coming in this latest wave that kicked off in April. Residents are barred from gathering in groups of more than five people, while public transport networks will shut from 9 pm. Long lines of people waited at two free testing clinics to get swabbed last week, with local media showing people camped under a tollway in Khlong Toei district - where Bangkok's largest slum is located - as they waited for negative results before going home to their families.
Why is so dishonest with its news. The restrictions being re-imposed are relating to things that have not been seen here since last year - night clubs. Other than that these countries will still be open at a magnitude massively greater than Ireland.
Rutte made this only to get more UE funds ...
Yeah, some sort of apologized and yet he doesn’t reverse the ease of measures, still no masks pubs open, you should write a follow up! (Btw: exponential growth was already there before measures were lifted, sage didn’t notice offcourse. Please follow C19RedTeam, ask them)
Fear inducing RTÉ
Could never happen here, that is for damn sure!
Mark Wahlberg has let himself go.
Even if they reverse some measures they're still MILES ahead of Ireland. You'd swear they were going back into lockdown from this article 🤡 disbandNPHET
Don't forget everything is open in Netherlands and has been for months.. they won't close again... in Ireland many business are shut and we're still getting a delta wave anyway...
Death toll ?
JudyAbel2 the arrogance of this Conservatives government wouldn't you imagine any responsible government would see what's going on elsewhere, take note + act with the benefit of this knowledge It didn't happen in 2020, and it's happening again JohnsonVariant deliberate democide
Meanwhile, USA has being open for months and their main issue is wild fires, not Covid! Life moves on (unless you live in Ireland)...
BorisJohnson have you seen this?
Right on cue RTÉ 😂
That will be ireland in September
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