- The number of positive corona tests (48,000 infections) has fallen by 7 percent in the past week compared to the previous seven days. The R number has also fallen, but hospital occupancy has increased, especially in the ICUs.
- A discussion paper by the IMF calls for targeted government capital injections into viable SMEs that have run into difficulties due to the corona crisis. The risks that SMEs will not survive the corona crisis are particularly high in Southern Europe, reports the FD.
- D-reizen, one of the largest travel organizations in the Netherlands, has been declared bankrupt. Due to the travel bans, the company hardly received any money. The voucher fund was also insufficient to keep D-reizen afloat, writes the NOS.
- There are hardly any corona infections in the open air, concludes Irish research. Only 0.1 percent of corona infections can be traced back to contacts in the open air, so reports De Telegraaf.
- Dats24, the petrol station subsidiary of supermarket group Colruyt, is going to sell green electricity and natural gas to private individuals in Belgium. With solar roofs on its distribution centres, wind farms at sea and wind turbines on land, Colruyt produces approximately 2.7 times as much electricity as it consumes, writes De Tijd.
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