Tag: Netherlands

• Friday, October 16th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Holland reports first infection with West Nile virus originated in the Netherlands

  

  Dutch health authorities said on Thursday they had found the first infection with the West Nile virus to have originated from the Netherlands last week. The patient is a man who had not been abroad recently, the National Institute for Public Health said.

• Friday, October 16th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Covid-19: Overloaded hospitals in Netherlands to transfer patients to Germany

  

  Hospitals in the Netherlands on Thursday said they would ask their German counterparts to take patients after the number of those hospitalized with the coronavirus doubled in the past week, to 1,526.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  Dutch PM Rutte did not visit his mother until hours before his mother's death, because of lockdown in the Netherlands

  

  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte did not visit his 96-year-old mother for more than eight weeks until hours before her death this month due to lockdown measures in the Netherlands, his office said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2020 - 07:22 UTC

  Mink to human Covid-19 infection reported in Netherlands by Agriculture minister

  

  Mink with the coronavirus has infected two people in the Netherlands in what are probably the first such cases of transmission during the epidemic, government and health authorities said on Monday.

• Monday, May 11th 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  Netherlands aligns with “protectionist” French policy in trade deals conditions

  

  France and the Netherlands have joined forces to urge the European Union to enforce environmental and labor standards more forcefully with countries the bloc signs trade deals with, according to a document anticipated by the Financial Times.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  Trump orders sanitary evacuation of Zaandam and Rotterdam passengers

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that US authorities will evacuate passengers from a stranded cruise ship due to dock in Florida after being barred from several South American countries because of a coronavirus outbreak aboard.

• Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:28 UTC

  Dutchman sentenced to 40 hours community service for insulting Argentine born Queen Maxima of the Netherlands

  

  Dutchman has been sentenced to 40 hours community service for insulting Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, after branding her the 'daughter of a murderer'.

• Friday, November 22nd 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Belgian 9-year old genius child, on track to becoming the youngest university graduate

  

  As he cradles his young puppy in his arms, Laurent Simons looks much like any other 9-year-old boy. Then he starts describing his work at a university in the Netherlands, developing a computer circuit that will replicate a part of the brain.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 11:12 UTC

  Law banning face-covering clothes in public came into force in the Netherlands

  

  The law that bans face-covering clothes on public transport, in government buildings and at health and education institutions has come into force in the Netherlands.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 08:01 UTC

  Netherlands suffering of over-tourism: time for destination management instead of destination promotion

  

  Netherland Tourism, Spanish Tourism, Hawaii Tourism has a common problem. Over-tourism! The world loves windmills, Amsterdam and tulips- but there is more to the Netherlands.