Amsterdam: Tulips and bitcoin have both been associated with financial bubbles in their time, but in a giant greenhouse near Amsterdam the Dutch are trying to make them work together. Engineer Bert de Groot inspects the six bitcoin miners as they perform complex sums to earn cryptocurrency, filling the air with a noisy whine along … Read more
Latest daily figures on Saturday showed 13,902 new Covid cases – the third-highest daily rate since the start of the pandemic – and 33 deaths. Dutch vaccination rates are relatively high, with 82.4% of over-12s having two doses, or 73% of the total population. Source link
Caution and bureaucracy have made the Dutch last in the EU to start vaccinating against Covid-19. Source link
Oct. 14, 2020 — An 89-year-old woman from the Netherlands has become the first person known to die after catching COVID-19 a second time. It’s unclear how representative her case may be. The woman was undergoing chemotherapy for blood cancer. The treatment is known to lower the immune system’s ability to function. During … Read more
An 89-year-old woman in the Netherlands has reportedly become the first known person to die of coronavirus after contracting it twice. Reports say the elderly woman was suffering from a rare kind of bone marrow cancer known as Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia. According to a report in CNN, the woman’s immune system was “compromised” following a therapy … Read more