According to the official Dutch count, there have been 4,795 coronavirus deaths in the Netherlands. Friedrich announced on March 19th that the north was departing from national Dutch policy. While the public health agency would be restricting testing to only severe and priority cases, he announced the north would follow the World Health Organisation’s advice: “test test test”. Prof Alex Friedrich: “Herd immunity can never be a public health strategy. “We talked to the public health service and said we are going to do something different from the national way,” he recalled.

Source: The Irish Times April 30, 2020 19:00 UTC