The Government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, announced Sunday the deployment of “several hundred” of screening centers near the vaccination centers.
Le Monde with AFP
Faced with an unpublished outbreak of the Omicron variant of the SARS-COV-2, the government spokesman announced, Sunday, January 9, on BFM-TV, “a plan to strengthen our test policy” . Gabriel Attal announced the deployment of “several hundred” of screening centers near the vaccination centers. “Almost ten million people” are tested per week but the tails are lengthening, acknowledged Mr. Attal, namely that “we would still multiply the test centers”.
“We will request the opening of screening centers near the vaccination centers”, so that at hollow moments of vaccination, on-site professionals can perform tests, clarified the spokesman of the government.
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“The second measure is to enable pharmacists to create their screening centers. We will give them the opportunity to recruit themselves temporarily of health professionals who will work in their own small screening center so that there is have more screenings made in pharmacies, “he added.
6 million autototes in stock
In addition, it is according to him “to further expand the persons entitled to do tests”, with Sunday morning a new decree published on the issue. Finally, concerning the autototes, they are 6 million in stock in pharmacies, who “will receive an additional 10 million” next week, “said Attal. “We will guarantee the 6,000 pharmacies that do not do antigenic tests and autototes that they will compensate they would have ordered and that they would not sell,” he still announced.
The massive screening policy is currently very expensive and complicated to organize. “We assume it,” said the government spokesman. “Of course it makes sense to test” and “will always push our test capabilities,” he said, insisting on the idea that “the test is an essential tool for the control of the epidemic “.
Concerning the vaccinal pass, which was to come into force on January 15, the Secretary of State informed that due to the delay in the report of the bill, this tool will be implemented “at most late in the first days of the week of January 17 “.
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