Brief economic news of December 22, 2021
FHI, Federation of Technology Industries – December 22, 2021
- The RIVM reports 13,460 new positive tests on Wednesday. That is 15 percent less than last week.
- Existing houses were 20.1 percent more expensive in November than in November 2020. This is the highest increase in almost 21 years. reports CBS. The number of homes sold fell by 13 percent last month.
- The laboratory capacity for carrying out PCR tests is in danger of being too small in January, writes de Volkskrant. Due to the emergence of the omikron variant, GGDs want to be able to administer two hundred thousand tests per day, but with current contracts there is only room for half that.
- The corona crisis has made the early closure of the Groningen gas field uncertain. A factory to convert foreign high-calorific gas into low-calorie gas is not yet ready. That writes NU.nl.
- Belgium also wants to quickly introduce new corona measures as a result of the emergence of the omikron variant. That reports VRT News. However, it would not involve a lockdown, partly because Belgium is further along than the Netherlands in deploying boosters.
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