Inspectorate has not issued any fines for mandatory use of the Corona detector
The Social Affairs and Employment Inspectorate of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment has not issued any fines in recent months for making the use of the Coronamelder app mandatory. Use of the app should always be voluntary.
A report had been received by the Inspectorate, but that turned out to be based on a misunderstanding, a spokesperson for the Inspectorate SZW told NU.nl. Mandating the use of the Coronamelder app, which alerts people if they have been near someone who later tested positive for corona, is prohibited by law.
A violation can lead to a fine of 8,700 euros or a prison sentence of six months. The spokesperson for the SZW Inspectorate says that no cases have been received at the Public Prosecution Service in the first three months in which this rule may have been violated.
The provision is in the law because the government was afraid that, for example, it would be mandatory to use the app when entering a building or office. The Inspectorate does not deal with the reverse, which, for example, employers recommend to employees to switch off or remove the Corona detector.
The app must support source and contact research. Currently, about 111,000 people have passed a positive test result through the app, the statistics show. As a result of the results, approximately 96,000 tests were performed, of which 9125 people were found to be positive. The statistics are from mid-October last year.