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Coronateststraat in Urmond.
Photo: Sittard-Geleen.nieuws.nl
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It should be easier to get tested. Experts and members of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT) in Trouw argue for this.
About one in eight people with complaints say they get tested for the corona virus. According to them, there are too few.
Tests are now often taken in test streets, for which people have to drive or even take the public transport. “It has to be done faster and better,” says Marc Bonten, MD, microbiologist and professor of molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases at UMC Utrecht. “I think, taken by the bank, that the GGDs are doing very well. I never expected that they could build this test infrastructure in a short time. But we now see that it must be even better. ”
He received approval from professor of infection prevention and physician-microbiologist Andreas Voss from Radboud university medical center: “Now people have an excuse to pass a test, and I can understand that. People don’t sniffle on the bus, or ride a long way for a test. The lower the threshold, the better compliance with the call for people with complaints to have themselves tested. ”
OMT’s Aura Timen also acknowledges the problem. “Some of the people with complaints indeed say: the accessibility of the test street should be improved. It has to be as close to the citizens as possible. ”
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