Why RIVM is still waiting for 46,000 positive tests (and how they know that)

So many positive tests are taken every day that the computer systems of the RIVM and the GGD can no longer keep up. In the past five days, 46,000 reports could not be processed. This raised questions among users of our discussion platform NUj: how is that possible? And how do authorities know that there are 46,000 positive tests?

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