Tamara van Ark

Dutch former politician, civil servant and management consultant

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Jun 13
Rutte tells COVID inquiry Netherlands 'crawled through the eye of the needle' as ICU beds nearly ran out in early 2020
Former Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte told a parliamentary COVID inquiry that the country came close to running out of intensive care beds in the first weeks of the pandemic, as the cabinet 'crawled through the eye of the needle' thanks to German help and blunt internal debates.