Fake corona test statements widely sold online
4 years, 2 months ago

Fake corona test statements widely sold online

NL Times  

False coronavirus test result statements can be bought online for 50 to 60 euros apiece, AD reported after buying multiple such statements without ever getting close to an actual Covid-19 test. Doctor Prem Heera at the Corona Test Service is one doctor whose name got used. Doctor Albert Zwart of HetHuisartslab was shocked when AD showed him a false test statement with his name on it, calling it "very serious". The Health and Youth Care Inspectorate told the newspaper that it does not "supervise the content of travel statements."

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Consumers warned to check home corona tests against approved list
3 years, 8 months ago

Consumers warned to check home corona tests against approved list

Dutch News  

Health inspectors have received dozens of reports of unlicensed coronavirus test kits being sold online and over the counter in shops. In other cases tests are advertised as ‘approved by the RIVM’, even though the public health agency does not have a certification system. ‘Some shops have stopped selling the tests as a result, or make clear on their website …

Consumers warned to check home corona tests against approved list
3 years, 8 months ago

Consumers warned to check home corona tests against approved list

Dutch News  

Health inspectors have received dozens of reports of unlicensed coronavirus test kits being sold online and over the counter in shops. In other cases tests are advertised as ‘approved by the RIVM’, even though the public health agency does not have a certification system. ‘Some shops have stopped selling the tests as a result, or make clear on their website …

Dutch for-profit coronavirus testing may be skewing official results
4 years, 1 month ago

Dutch for-profit coronavirus testing may be skewing official results

NL Times  

Over a third of all coronavirus tests done in the Netherlands are not done by health service GGD, but by commercial parties, according to research by EenVandaag. The Red Team, a team of experts in various fields that gives the government advice on the Covid-19 pandemic, worries that this may be skewing the official results. That means that around 170 …

Covid-19 test blunder: 30 false positives in Dordrecht
4 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 test blunder: 30 false positives in Dordrecht

NL Times  

Thirty people were wrongly diagnosed with the coronavirus by a laboratory in Dordrecht. The malfunction of a test device caused the false positive test results, the laboratory said in a statement. We immediately launched an investigation into this, which led to a 'too strict' device," the Regionaal Laboratorium Medische Microbiologie said. "We immediately repeated all positive tests performed on this …

Coronavirus: Private clinic defends charging £375 for test
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: Private clinic defends charging £375 for test

The Independent  

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