In the course of next week, a lot more people will be able to register to have themselves tested for COVID-19 in the Antwerp test village on Spoor Oost. That says the Cabinet of Aldermen for Healthcare Fons Duchateau (N-VA). These are people who want to go abroad and need a test result. But they will not be eligible for a refund.
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One of the reasons for the expansion is that the capacity of the test village is currently far from being fully utilized. Until now, you can only go there with a registration code that you can get if you returned from a red zone abroad or through contact research. For that reason, only a hundred people come to be tested every day, while the capacity is 600 tests and can still be scaled up. The city of Antwerp and the ZNA hospital dome, two of the main initiators of the test village, have been calling for an expansion of the categories of people who can have themselves tested from the start and are now taking matters into their own hands.
Enlargement would come in the course of next week. In addition, the testing village is also working on registration codes that company doctors can give to people who should have themselves tested for work. Duchateau is also asking the federal government to provide codes for those returning from an orange zone.
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