Holland Casino is participating in the trial with six locations, where visitors are welcome if they test negative for the corona virus. The casinos, spread throughout the Netherlands, may open their doors for one day in the weekend of April 24 and 25.
For the pilots, guests must pre-book to visit the casino. They must first have taken a rapid test at a location of the Open Netherlands Foundation. Once inside, visitors must still keep a distance of 1,5 meters from each other and adhere to other basic rules against corona infections.
The gambling houses in Enschede, Venlo and Breda will open on Saturday 24 April for the trial with access tests. A day later it is the turn of Holland Casino locations in Amsterdam-West, Utrecht and Leeuwarden.
Holland Casino is participating in the trials to determine whether access tests are a means of reopening more quickly. All fourteen branches of the company, owned by the Dutch state, have been closed since the hard lockdown was announced in December.
responsible event
The chairman of the National Network Acute Care (LNAZ) Ernst Kuipers and the chairman of the Dutch Intensive Care Association (NVIC) Diederik Gommers think starting events where only people with a recent negative test result for the corona virus are allowed to enter is a good development. But then it must be done responsibly, the doctors say.
Gommers says that hospitals are filling up and that medical staff no longer know how to keep up. "Therefore, there should be no increased risk and all measures should be enforced." If the control is good, according to the doctor, it can even prevent infections, because fewer people then come together in the same place.
Kuipers sees the limited reopening as a good opportunity to collect data. “This offers a good opportunity under controlled conditions,” says Kuipers. "It will generate a lot of important knowledge and also be an impetus to relax as much and quickly as possible in the coming longer period."
According to the doctors, it is now very busy in the hospitals and at the ICs. According to the calculation models, the peak for care in the third wave of the epidemic caused by the coronavirus is almost in sight and is probably slightly lower than expected.
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