The Ministry of Public Health scrapped a plan that could have meant around 100 extra intensive care beds available from the start of this month, the Volkskrant reports. The plan, drafted by patient distribution coordinator LCPS and the association of intensive care NVIC, involved concentrating this extra coronavirus care in three hospitals and recruiting ICU nurses from abroad. The detailed plan was axed in September because the Ministry only wanted to use Dutch ICU staff, according to the newspaper. 

Members of the Tweede Kamer agreed to the Cabinet’s plan to allocate 150 million euros for the purchase of a painting by Rembrandt. The Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate, must also give its approval before the purchase of The Standard Bearer can be completed.