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From the week of November 23, people will be retested who do not show symptoms of COVID-19, but have come into close contact with someone who is infected.
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These are so-called PCR tests. A few weeks ago, testing of people who showed no symptoms was stopped because the capacity was under pressure and it could take a long time for the results to be available.
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But the issue was raised on Saturday at an inter-ministerial conference of health ministers. Het Laatste Nieuws already wrote on Saturday that testing in people without symptoms will resume shortly and the French-speaking broadcaster RTBF also reported that.
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Testing of people without symptoms will resume from the week of November 23. Minister Vandenbroucke briefly confirmed the news at VTM on Saturday evening. ‘We are going to start again, not next week, but the following week, with testing the people who simply had a high-risk contact. But we will first give the details to those who have to organize it on the field. Those are the GPs and others. ‘
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There is no additional information about the new test strategy. At the beginning of next week, communication would follow via the corona commissioner.
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