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On Saturday, February 27, it will be a year since the first case of coronavirus was reported in the Netherlands. Here is a timeline of how the disease spread through the country and the government’s response.
December 31 2019: Wuhan Municipal Health Commission in China announces 27 infections with a new type of coronavirus, which will become known as Sars-Cov-2.
January 20 2020: The United States and South Korea both report their first novel coronavirus cases to the WHO.
January 24: Europe’s first case is reported in France.
February 21: Carnaval weekend begins, with revellers cramming into bars and nightclubs in southern Dutch provinces.
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FILE PHOTO: People ride bikes on an empty street as Netherlands has gone into lockdown as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Amsterdam, Netherlands December 15 2020, REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A national lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the Netherlands will probably have to last at least until mid-February and even then can only be partially lifted, one of the country’s health chiefs said on Thursday.
Jaap van Dissel, head of infectious disease control at the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM), told Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad that some 2 million people in the country of 17 million had caught COVID-19 and probably had some immunity.