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Dutch virus cases up 24 per cent in a week – PerthNow
Dutch health authorities have repeatedly warned about an imminent wave of coronavirus infections as cases of new mutations increase.
The number of new coronavirus infections in the Netherlands has increased by 24 per cent in the past seven days, the biggest weekly jump since mid-December, Dutch health authorities say.
A total 39,527 new cases were confirmed in the country of 17 million people in the past week, taking the total number of COVID-19 patients since the start of the pandemic to almost 1.2 million, with 16,119 related deaths.
Three-quarters of the new cases were caused by a new, more contagious mutation of the virus…
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