At the height of the epidemic of seasonal influenza, 50.000 to 70.000 tests (testing for the coronavirus, editor's NOTE) will be provided per day", said Friday the spokesperson for federal-to-federal Frédérique Jacobs during a joint press conference at the crisis Centre and the FPS public Health.

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This peak is usually between January and march. The ministers of Health have a plan "ambitious to maintain a high rate of testing in the months to come," she says. On the other hand, the way in which the increase in testing will be achieved has not been clarified at the press conference.