

On 12 January, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan, Hubei, China, who had initially come to the attention of the WHO on 31 December 2019. Īs of 10 September 2022, a total of 36,105,753 vaccine doses have been administered. There is a lockdown in the Netherlands from 19 December 2021 to (at least) 14 January 2022. The number of registered new infections has risen strongly.

Since the end of November 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is spreading in parts of Europe (i.e. curfew in a context of emergence of the British variant, the worst riots in 40 years broke out across the country. On 23 January 2021, as the government imposed a nationwide 9:00 p.m. In March 2020, Prime Minister Mark Rutte called for herd immunity as an important method to stop the pandemic. The government strategy on pandemic control has been criticised for the refusal to acknowledge the role of asymptomatic spread and the role of masks in preventing spread, as well as for the lack of testing capacity, in particular during the first half of 2020. On the advice of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT), under supervision of Jaap van Dissel, measures were taken by the Third Rutte cabinet for the public health to prevent the spread of this viral disease, including the "intelligent lockdown". The first death occurred on 6 March, when an 86-year-old patient died in Rotterdam. As of 31 January 2021, there are 978,475 confirmed cases of infections and 13,998 confirmed deaths. It involved a 56-year-old Dutchman who had arrived in the Netherlands from Italy, where the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to enter Europe. The virus reached the Netherlands on 27 February 2020, when its first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Tilburg. The COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands has resulted in 8,610,372 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 22,992 deaths. 4,029,669 fully vaccinated without booster (13 March 2022).
