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Company should not require staff to be at work earlier

A Limburg company that fired an employee because she was not always present ten minutes before the start of her work has been reprimanded by the subdistrict court. If it is so important for employees to be present earlier, the judge says the company should also pay for it.

Advice OMT: no relaxation in December, possibly longer Christmas holidays

A further relaxation of the corona measures is not possible for the time being. In addition, it must be investigated whether the Christmas holidays can be extended at all schools. The Outbreak Management Team writes this in an advice to the cabinet, sources report to the political editors of RTL Nieuws.

Also negative savings interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank

If you have more than a quarter of a million in your savings account, you will have to pay negative interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank from 1 March.

Can the Netherlands also start vaccinating in December?

The United States, Germany, Spain: they all have high hopes that they will be able to vaccinate the first people against the corona virus in December. Will the Netherlands also succeed?

Amsterdam is repentant by corona: from now on only “quality tourists” in the city

Amsterdam hopes to attract a different type of tourist after corona. A new image campaign abroad and measures to control visitor flows, such as a ban on Airbnb and a tax for day trippers, should help.
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Company should not require staff to be at work earlier

A Limburg company that fired an employee because she was not always present ten minutes before the start of her work has been reprimanded by the subdistrict court. If it is so important for employees to be present earlier, the judge says the company should also pay for it.

Advice OMT: no relaxation in December, possibly longer Christmas holidays

A further relaxation of the corona measures is not possible for the time being. In addition, it must be investigated whether the Christmas holidays can be extended at all schools. The Outbreak Management Team writes this in an advice to the cabinet, sources report to the political editors of RTL Nieuws.

Also negative savings interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank

If you have more than a quarter of a million in your savings account, you will have to pay negative interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank from 1 March.

Can the Netherlands also start vaccinating in December?

The United States, Germany, Spain: they all have high hopes that they will be able to vaccinate the first people against the corona virus in December. Will the Netherlands also succeed?

Script for deploying corona test subjects is finished: ‘there are always risks’

Internist-infectiologist Meta Roestenberg and her team are making the scenario if our country wants to use test subjects against corona. Healthy people are then deliberately infected with the corona virus. Over 30? Then you lose weight as a test subject. And there are risks. There is a fee in return, but is it worth it?

5,974 new corona infections, 254 more than yesterday

During the last 24 hours, 5,974 corona infections were reported to the RIVM. that is 254 more than yesterday. Also in this live blog: Amsterdammers of Turkish, Moroccan or Surinamese descent almost as often have covid-19 antibodies in their blood as Amsterdammers of Dutch descent. This percentage is only higher in the group of Ghanaians.

Can you get corona if you obey all the rules? ‘Chance is never zero’

If someone is infected with the corona virus, then they probably have not adhered to the corona rules, right? That does not always have to be the case, says a spokesperson for the National Institute for Public Health in the Environment (RIVM) in conversation with NU.nl.

Research on tuberculosis vaccine and COVID-19 is still ongoing, we now know this

Radboudumc and UMC Utrecht started a trial in March to see whether the vaccine against tuberculosis (the BCG vaccine) might protect healthcare providers against COVID-19. NU.nl wonders: Is more known about this?

‘Dutch blood banks will test for West Nile virus’

Blood banks in the Utrecht area will test supplied blood for the West Nile virus, Hart van Nederland reports Thursday. The reason is the first infection in the Netherlands.

The number of premature births during the corona crisis has fallen by about 20 percent

The number of premature births has fallen by 15 to 23 percent since the announcement of the ground rules on 9 March, according to data research from Erasmus MC on Wednesday. Further research is necessary to determine the cause of the decline.

Better information should keep the non-western corona patient from the IC

Corona patients with a non-Western background are overrepresented in the IC, IC doctor Armand Girbes notes. Is information about corona sufficient for people who do not speak Dutch well?

Dutch woman (89) died who got coronavirus for the second time

For the first time, a Dutch person died who was infected with the corona virus for the second time. It concerns an 89-year-old woman who suffered from a rare form of cancer and was undergoing treatment that prevents the immune system from working fully.
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Company should not require staff to be at work earlier

A Limburg company that fired an employee because she was not always present ten minutes before the start of her work has been reprimanded by the subdistrict court. If it is so important for employees to be present earlier, the judge says the company should also pay for it.

Advice OMT: no relaxation in December, possibly longer Christmas holidays

A further relaxation of the corona measures is not possible for the time being. In addition, it must be investigated whether the Christmas holidays can be extended at all schools. The Outbreak Management Team writes this in an advice to the cabinet, sources report to the political editors of RTL Nieuws.

Also negative savings interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank

If you have more than a quarter of a million in your savings account, you will have to pay negative interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank from 1 March.
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