The ministry confirms to RTL Nieuws that it has filed a report against a provider of corona tests, but cannot say that this is an emergency test. Spoedtest.nl, which claims to be the largest commercial provider of corona tests in the Netherlands with more than 100 locations, says in a statement that an investigation is underway into false vaccination certificates.
Spoedtest.nl ‘regrets the drastic decision of the ministry’, says director Rasmus Emmelkamp. “The test provider will do everything it can to ensure that the VWS investigation goes well and to demonstrate that the suspicions of sending false vaccination certificates are completely unfounded.”
To block
According to the ministry, there are strong suspicions that vaccination certificates have been wrongly issued. She cannot say how much evidence is involved. But it concerns ‘a decent number.’
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Offering vaccination certificates is not part of the regular activities of a test provider, the ministry spokesman said. “We now have suspicions. If it turns out to be the case, we will try to block as many vaccination certificates as possible. Generating false QR codes as well as purchasing or using them is punishable by law.”
The police take the case very seriously, she says. The Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ) has also been informed.
“You endanger your own health if you enter somewhere with a vaccination certificate, and that of others. Because other people think they can safely let go of the one and a half meters because people around them have been vaccinated, recovered from corona or tested. the last thing we can use with the current infection rates.”
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Director Emmelkamp says that Spoedtest.nl has only been busy taking corona tests. “Vaccination certificates are not provided by the company.”
People who now want to Test for Access should do so with another provider. This is not expected to cause any problems, says the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. “This provider is located in places where a different provider is often. And during the week it is not overcrowded at Testen voor Access.”
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