The West Nile virus has been confirmed in five more people in the Netherlands. Three of the infections occurred in Zuid-Holland and two in Noord-Brabant. As a result, the total number of confirmed infections has risen to 64. The number of deaths remains at 10, according to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).

Another person in the Netherlands has died after contracting West Nile virus during the first week of October, according to the latest weekly update from the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). Three new infections were reported between October 1 and 7, bringing the total number of people diagnosed with the virus in the Netherlands this year to 59. Ten of those patients have died.