Summer storm Francis will hit the Netherlands on Tuesday evening, bringing wind speeds of up to 100 kph at sea, with rain and gales inland, weather bureaus say. The KNMI meteorological office has issued a code yellow storm warning for coastal areas overnight, saying the wind could reach up to 80kph in the west. In particular strong gusts of wind may bring down trees which have been weakened by the drought, weather bureau Weerplaza said. This is likely to be...

The Netherlands has one case of a coronavirus patient being infected for a second time, virologist Marion Koopmans has told broadcaster NOS, following news of a case of re-infection in Hong Kong. The Dutch patient was elderly with a poor immune system, Koopmans said, but declined to give further details about their condition. ‘SARS CoV-2 infections all have a different fingerprint, or genetic code,’ she said. For a patient to officially be re-infected, they must show a different genetic code...