The Netherlands is ramping up testing for the new coronavirus with drive-in locations for healthcare personnel, including one site at an ice rink.

“In the summer this ice rink is not used. This is a very suitable location to test people in a safe and hygienic way,” Derk Burger, of the local health authority GGD told Reuters. He added some 100 people a day were tested at the site.

A member of medical staff takes coronavirus test samples at a drive-thru coronavirus testing centre, on a converted ice rink, in Alkmaar, Netherlands. — Reuters
A member of medical staff takes coronavirus test samples at a drive-thru coronavirus testing centre, on a converted ice rink, in Alkmaar, Netherlands. — Reuters

Last week the Dutch government announced it would ramp up testing capacity from some 4,000 tests a day to 17,500.

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