It was reported as an overseas story, often with the tagline "Coronapanic" telegraaf.nl/nieuws/8782973…
Volkskrant headline: "Italian Coronapanic: yesterday someone sneezed on the Metro, half the people got up and moved" volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achterg…
Explainer articles tended to play down the risks:
"the Coronavirus is not very contagious via the air"
"the chance of dying from the new virus is not very high statistically"
"the virus does not last long outside the body" volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achterg…
"Reporting on the Coronavirus is more dangerous than the virus itself" volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie…
"Coronapanic from politicians and scaredy-pants" dvhn.nl/meningen/Opini…
The couple were met with bare handshakes and cups of coffee by Dutch health authorities the GGD in Schiphol airport. telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1085298…
They could only go as far as their garden, and neighbours dropped groceries to their door.
One works at Bannink Packaging in Drenthe in the northern Netherlands. His partner is also infected.
Once found positive, they were told not to tell their contacts, or their work, but to keep the diagnosis quiet, van Esch says
There is some evidence that Covid-19 can be spread from people with no symptoms. Advice is inconsistent between @ECDC_EU and @WHO as I wrote here )
Feb 27: 1
Feb 28: 2
Feb 29: 7
Mar 1: 10
Mar 2: 18
Mar 3: 24
Mar 4: 38
Mar 5: 82
Mar 6: 128
Mar 7: 188
Mar 8: 265
3 deaths
6,000 tests done as of Mar 7, per @rivm (number of individuals tested is lower, as many are tested twice)