For this, you need to know about the first coronabesmetting in the Netherlands

After more than fifteen other countries in the EU, was also in the Netherlands on Thursday to believe a person has tested positive for the corona virus. What do

For this, you need to know about the first coronabesmetting in the Netherlands

After more than fifteen other countries in the EU, was also in the Netherlands on Thursday to believe a person has tested positive for the corona virus. What do we know about the first one being infected with the COVID-a 19-a virus of our own country?

What do we know about the patient?

According to the national Institute for public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and the Dutch guy, recently, in the Northern Italian region of Lombardy, and visited while on a business trip. This is the area with the highest rate of infection in Europe with more than 650 people were there, and the COVID-19-the virus.

as Well as in other EU member states such as Austria and estonia, which were, the infection is discovered with people who have recently been in the north of Italy, and have been.

the man with the corona virus in itself is not questionable according to the minister, mr Bruins (Health Care), it is the infected are twice tested, and the result was the same both times. The Tests are to be performed twice in order to avoid mistakes.

various Dutch media are reporting, based on sources, that it's going to be a 56-year-old from Loon op Zand. It is yet to be confirmed, but the mayor of the province of the municipality, Hanne, of Art, says in interview with newspaper De Telegraaf, which is also in its surroundings there is everything to be done in order that the infection in the bud.

The man was absorbed at the Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital in Tilburg, the netherlands, where he was in quarantine, being treated. He should be held to account and the circumstances make it".

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the Short answer is yes. According to the GOVERNMENT-topvrouw Aura Timen, who is also the head of the Center, National Coordination for infectious disease control (LCI), there are plenty of isolatiekamers be available in the Netherlands, in addition to sufficient experience in such a gezondheidsuitdagingen.

the Protocols, and serves as a reference point around the turn of the year has already been adapted and optimized to the doctors, the laboratories, the public health service and the GOVERNMENT are working closely together.

The situation is so under control, that is, the hospital where the man is being treated for now will remain for the public. There are no restrictions for visitors. Consequently, visitors to the hospital, no need to worry, because the guy is straight, it is in an isolated position. The football match Willem II, before Friday at the planning department in Tilburg, the netherlands, is still 'just' by.

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health organization the WHO is an international health crisis and the pandemic, which is a term that is used when a disease is spreading across several continents it has spread.

On nearly every continent, with the exception of Antarctica, however, the existence of multiple infections. According to WHO, the number of patients with "worrisome" but not to such a large degree that there is talk of a global pandemic. However, reported Thursday that the virus has the potential to be a pandemic threat to be used.

In China, where the virus was first discovered, the number of new infections per day, right significantly. In the beginning of February, there were thousands and thousands of patients each day, a Thursday, there were still 327: - the smallest number since the 23rd of January.

in the European Union ("EU"), it is clear a growing number of countries, the impact of the recent outbreak in Italy. On the Spanish island of Tenerife had to be nearly a thousand tourists in quarantine, after that the corona virus was discovered by an Italian physician.

Outside of Europe, especially in South Korea, and Russia. The country also saw the number of deaths in the last couple of weeks and is quickly rising to 26 for the biggest number after China. In South Korea, every day thousands of new infections have been observed, so there is now two-thousand patients have to be treated.

The COVID-19-the virus (corona virus) in a nutshell: The virus is spread mainly through the coughs and niesdruppeltjes that are in the air. Those who have no symptoms is less than risk of infection. A person can have, on average, two-to-three-infect others (it is less than, for example, measles, mumps). And this number is declining, however, due to all the safety precautions. By far, most of the people have a light (- like) symptoms. Almost all the deaths involve elderly or already ill people.

Date Of Update: 28 February 2020, 08:00