The good news this week: sheep (keepers) relieved and thousands of ribbons | Good news

A vaccine against bluetongue has been immediately approved for use in the Netherlands. One million shots could be available within a few days to a week. Sheep and cows may already be protected against the virus next summer.

To be well protected against bluetongue, sheep need one vaccination. Cattle need two. There must be a few weeks between these two vaccinations. It then takes a few more weeks before the animals are completely protected.

Two weeks after the first delivery, one million doses will again be available. More doses will probably come after that. It is also expected that a vaccine will soon be available.

3,375 people received a royal honor on Friday: from a Japanese scientist to an aid worker during the 2011 massacre in a shopping center in Alphen aan den Rijn. Nothing was distributed in only one municipality.

Last year, 2,832 people received royal recognition. This means that the number of ribbons has increased by almost 20 percent.

Rescuers have rescued two climbers from a rock face near the Italian city of Turin. The mountaineers got stuck on the Parete Caporal in Noasca.

The Netherlands can become climate neutral by 2050, even if our country retains a large aviation sector and a lot of industry. It is a “mega-complex change” that affects all parts of the economy. If we behave more sustainably, we make the puzzle easier, experts say.

“It is nice that we can give this message,” says Marko Hekkert, director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). In front of him are more than twelve hundred pages of research, which together show how the Netherlands can become a country that does not release extra CO2 into the air.

The life of the Voyager 1 space probe, launched in 1977, has been saved again. Due to a defective chip, the artificial moon sent unusable data. Space agency NASA has solved that problem with a software update.

Five months ago, Voyager 1 started spouting gibberish. The data received by the American space agency NASA was no longer usable.

NASA wrote a software update. That was quite a challenge because Voyager 1’s systems are almost fifty years old and therefore have very limited memory. We managed to send the software update to the space probe and thus bypass the defective chip.

The municipality of Arnhem will buy up the debts of a number of households in the Immerloo district. The municipality does this without imposing any conditions. “We want to challenge something with this new way of tackling debt.”

According to the municipality of Arnhem, Immerloo is the poorest district in the Netherlands. Many people with debts live in the neighborhood. The intention is that sixty households from Immerloo will be helped by the municipality’s new debt plan over the next two years.

Wheelchair tennis player Diede de Groot was named Athlete of the Year with a disability at the prestigious Laureus Awards in Madrid on Monday. The 27-year-old Woerdense has been nominated before, but wins for the first time.

De Groot received the prize for her excellent performance in 2023. She won all her 53 matches and was the best in all four Grand Slam tournaments: Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open. Her last loss even dates back to 2021.

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