In total, more than 6.8 million tests, PCR and antigenics, were made last week, with a peak unpublished at 1.55 million on December 23rd.
Le Monde with AFP
More than 6.8 million CVIV-19, PCR and antigenic tests, were conducted last week, a “new record” due “mainly” to the 16-65 year olds, according to figures published Thursday 30 December by the Ministry of Health.
We observe a peak unpublished at 1.55 million tests on December 23, “daily volume record” just before the New Year’s Eve, says the direction of research, studies, evaluation and statistics in a statement .
In this school holiday season, screening logged by 40% in children under 15 years. Nevertheless, this decline has been more than compensated by a jump from 20% to 30% in all other age groups, including people aged 16 to 65: they have completed three-quarters of the tests between the 20th and 26th. December.
Sale of autototes in large surface
The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, mentioned on Wednesday a figure still higher, 7.3 million PCR and antigenic tests over the same period, including “only 500,000 were not reimbursed” by the Medicare, because “they corresponded to unvaccinated persons, not any sympathomatic contacts [and] prescription”. By adding the six million autototes realized “on the days before Christmas”, the global volume “is actually mounted more than 13 million tests practiced by the French,” said the minister.
It is this massive request that justified, according to Olivier Véran, the authorization granted Tuesday to the large distribution to sell autototes until 31 January.
Sign of this test rush, the Alsatian BioSynex company, one of the five French manufacturers whose self test has obtained the approval of the National Agency for the Safety of Drug and Health Products, hired 200 interim to meet the demand.
While more than 200,000 new cases of SAR-COV-2 contamination were detected in France in twenty-four hours Wednesday, Oren Bitton, the Sales Manager for Europe of the company, expects to “a surf” for future weeks. “There will be a lot of positive cases, which means a lot of contacts, so it will be necessary to go to pharmacy or laboratory to check its status. We plan to produce 20 million tests in January, including 10 million for France “He details.