The head of one of the Netherlands’ largest testing laboratories has warned the coronavirus testing system risks grinding to a halt if capacity is not increased. ‘What I don’t understand at the moment is that the number of tests we have has stalled, even though the big labs don’t seem to have any shortfall.’ High-volume lab A spokesman for health …
Public health agency RIVM said that 1,379 more people tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus, the highest single-day total since the pandemic began. “The upward trend continues with more than a thousand new cases per day,” said Aura Timen, who leads the National Center for Infectious Disease Control at the RIVM. Of over eight thousand coronavirus infections recorded last …