COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Netherlands |
Index case | Tilburg |
Arrival date | 27 February 2020 (4 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 1 day) |
Confirmed cases | 43,841[1] |
Recovered | unknown[a] |
Deaths | 5,590[1] |
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to the Netherlands on 27 February 2020.
The first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Tilburg. It was a 56-year-old Dutchman who had arrived in the Netherlands from Italy. As of 14 May, there are 43,481 confirmed cases of infection and 5,590 confirmed COVID-19-deaths.[1] The first death occurred on 6 March, when an 86-year-old patient died in Rotterdam.[3]
Measures were taken by the Rutte III cabinet for the public health to prevent the spread of this virus disease, including the “intelligent lockdown”.[4]
By mid-March, the country could test about 1,000 samples per day, which is less than other European countries.[5] This explains the large number of deaths in COVID cases there.[6]