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The number of coronavirus cases passed 45,000 in the Netherlands on Saturday, after 176 more people tested positive for the virus.
According to the latest update from the Dutch public health institute, the total number of confirmed cases in the Netherlands since the pandemic first spread there is 45,064. Of those, 5,811 have died, with 23 more deaths announced on Saturday.
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has given the green light for football to return in the week beginning 8 June, allowing La Liga to go ahead with plans to restart the first division with the Seville derby on Friday June 12. A formal announcement on the date of the return to competition will be made by the league’s president, Javier Tebas, in the next couple of days.
Sánchez made the announcement during a press conference on Saturday afternoon in which he said that the “worst has passed” and that Spain was now at “the end of the tunnel”, allowing for a further relaxing of the state of alarm which was first declared on 14 March.
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