The decision to move residents to another location was also taken on the advice of the GGD Kennemerland. “There are temporarily 41 sick people with their 32 healthy roommates going to a park in Laag Zuthem in the municipality of Raalte. Sick and healthy asylum seekers are received there separately from each other. A location is still being sought for other residents.
Drinking water
The COA previously reported that typhoid fever was diagnosed in seven people on one of the two boats in Haarlem. As far as we know, there are now eight. Typhoid fever is a disease that is mainly caused by an infection with the salmonella bacteria.
The first results of the studies show that there has been no contamination via the drinking water, but in order to rule this out definitively, the samples remain in culture. “As long as the source has not yet been identified, we will do everything we can to prevent further spread. That is why the decision was taken to relocate people.” In total, more than two hundred people are accommodated on the two boats.