{"id":125778,"date":"2021-04-20T15:23:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=125778"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:34","slug":"voluntary-covid-test-before-lectures-more-than-half-of-eur-students-would-refuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/04\/20\/voluntary-covid-test-before-lectures-more-than-half-of-eur-students-would-refuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Voluntary Covid test before lectures? More than half of EUR students would refuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than half of Erasmus University\u2019s students would not test themselves for coronavirus before coming to campus if doing so were voluntary. And if using a self-test kit were to be made mandatory, nearly 40 percent would still refuse to take the test. Those are the results of a survey conducted by Erasmus Magazine on the government\u2019s plan to have higher education students self-test, taken by 465 students.<\/p>\n

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Students attending universities and universities of applied sciences may be allowed to attend classes on campus one day per week starting from 26 April. An announcement as to whether this plan will be implemented is expected to be made during the press conference to be held on Tuesday evening. In order to curb the spread of the virus, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science wishes to distribute self-test kits free of charge so as to allow students to test if they are virus-free prior to coming to campus, on a voluntary basis.<\/p>\n

Erasmus Magazine\u2019s survey, which was taken by students between last Thursday and yesterday (Monday), shows that 53 percent of respondents would not use a self-test kit if they can also come to campus without undergoing testing. 40 percent would take the test, and 7 percent have not yet made up their minds (see chart).<\/p>\n

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These survey results are in line with the results of the pilot study conducted at Avans University of Applied Sciences, where only 30 percent of the students who had been asked to self-test in order to be allowed to come to campus actually took part in the self-testing pilot study. This raised the question as to whether to make self-testing mandatory.<\/p>\n\n\t

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