An employee takes care of a quarantined resident in a nursing home on December 1, 2021 in Nieuwekerk, Netherlands. Nearly 1,000 nursing homes in the Netherlands have reported at least one coronavirus infection in the last four weeks, beating the previous record set in January. The figure of 970 represents 40 % of all residential care homes in the Netherlands. In general those infected suffer a milder form of the illness than a year ago, but the death rate is roughly the same. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COM