Brief economic corona news from January 27
FHI, Federation of Technology Industries – January 27, 2021
- The RIVM reports 4774 new corona infections on Wednesday. That is 794 more than Tuesday, but lower than the average of last week (4972).
- AstraZeneca must make public the contract it has signed with the EU. This is the opinion of the European Commission after the conflict over the reduced deliveries of corona vaccines has escalated considerably, reports RTL NewsAstraZeneca recently announced that it will be able to deliver fewer vaccines to EU countries in the first quarter.
- Due to the tightened corona measures, the German government expects that economic growth in Germany will not exceed 3 percent this year, writes the FDPreviously, the government had assumed annual growth of 4.4 percent.
- D66 and GroenLinks want employees to have the right to work from home and want to arrange this through an emergency law, NOS reports. According to the parties, too many employers are still forcing their employees to come to the office, while the number of infections in the workplace is increasing. If the law is amended, employers will only be able to reject a request to work from home on the grounds of “important business interests”.
- Last Saturday, when the curfew came into effect, the roads were 40 percent less busy than a week earlier. That writes the NOS based on an analysis by Flitsmeister.
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