Rotterdam event center Ahoy saw its plans for this year change drastically due to the coronavirus. Instead of hosting the Eurovision Song Contest, Ahoy is now is ready to start taking in patients who need care, but are not so sick as to need hospital treatment. As of Monday, the event center has 88 beds available. If necessary, this can increase to 680 beds, ANP reports.
Ahoy can take in coronavirus patients, but also patients with other illnesses, the center said.
Congress center RAI in Amsterdam and event hall Ahoy in Rotterdam are looking into whether and how they can serve as emergency locations to take in patients during the coronavirus crisis, the two venues confirmed to BNR.
RAI CEO Paul Riemens met with Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema on Wednesday. Nothing concrete has been decided yet, he said to the broadcaster. "But if indeed it turns out that there will soon be too few beds, it is expected that an appeal will be made to the RAI," he said.
The about 240 thousand Turkish-Dutch people in the Netherlands will be casting their votes for the Turkish parliamentary elections between Wednesday and Sunday.
The City of Rotterdam will soon play host to a striking new event hall as Keileweg’s former gas storage tank is transformed into the Ferro Dome. Filling a much needed gap in Rotterdam’s available concert hall space, the Dome is set to open it’s doors at the end of December for a six-month trial run, programming a series of dance events, concerts and events for the business market.
The 39th edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival will open its doors today. The three-day festival takes place in Rotterdam Ahoy with big veteran show-stoppers like as Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones joined by young talent such as Joss Stone and Pharrell Williams.
Paloma Faith, Bootsy Collins & the Funk Unity Band, Natalie Cole, daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole. These are all th fabulous names that will appear at this year's sold-out North Sea Jazz Festival on the 11th, 12th and 13th of July in Ahoy in Rotterdam.
Marco Borsato is home after a two-day stay in a hospital, recovering from a TIA he suffered last week Wednesday, on his way to "Vrienden van Amstel LIVE" in Ahoy in Rotterdam.
Performer Marco Borsato suffered a stroke Wednesday late afternoon. Borsato was scheduled to perform during "Vrienden van Amstel Live!" in Ahoy, but fell ill before the concert. He was rushed to the hospital where it was determined in the early evening he had suffered a stroke.
Dutch radio station Radio 2 presented the official song for the new King, ‘het Koningslied’, on Friday. The video clip will follow on Monday at 12.30pm. The song is meant for everyone who supports the royal family.
