AMSTERDAM - On Monday, the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport filed a complaint against test company Spoedtest.nl, the largest provider of commercial corona tests in the Netherlands. The company will no longer have access to the CoronaCheck system and the appointment system for Testing for Access with immediate effect. Director Rasmus Emmelkamp from Hoofddorp says in a statement that he will not provide vaccination certificates.
Emmelkamp says that Spoedtest.nl regrets the drastic decision of the ministry. The test provider has been taking corona tests since the start of the pandemic. The company has only been affiliated with Testing for Access for a month and a half. Emmelkamp says that the company can continue testing as usual. "Only the QR code can no longer be obtained, so you can no longer go to a football match with our test."
With a hundred locations in the Netherlands and more than twenty locations in North Holland, the company has been the largest test provider since the start of the crisis. They account for twenty percent of all tests. People who currently have an appointment from Testing for Access with the provider will be informed by Spoedtest.nl and must make an appointment with another provider. In the interest of the ongoing investigation, Emmelkamp does not want to disclose how many appointments this entails.
False test certificate to Curaçao
The company had already been discredited earlier this year. A traveler from Amsterdam was able to fly to Curaçao last July with a false test certificate. This traveler did not receive the test result within the agreed time, after which an employee of the test company sent false proof. It featured a different type of test, a different time, and the proof was editable by the user.
Emmelkamp also does not want to respond to this in the interest of the investigation. He says: "Every PDF file can be opened and edited via different programs. You can't attribute that to us as a company. I don't think it's wise to mix events from the past with what's going on now."
