'New lockdowns loom' if government fails to anticipate autumn corona wave

The Netherlands needs to step up its preparations for a new wave of coronavirus infections in the autumn or risk another lockdown, experts have warned. Administrators said there was a lack of urgency among policymakers to fix problems, such as a shortage of intensive care beds, that hampered the Dutch pandemic response in the last two years. ‘Everybody seems to have fallen asleep, it’s a bit of a head-in-the-sand approach,’ David Jongen, vice-chairman of the hospitals’ association Vereniging van Ziekenhuizen...