one million tests carried out in France in one week

In a Parisian pharmacy, we test again with a vengeance, on the morning of Friday, September 23. Suffering from cough and fever, in the midst of the resumption of the Covid-19 epidemic, a pensioner did not hesitate for a single second to be tested. A pharmacy in Montpellier (Herault) also notes this resumption of screening. A teacher came to get a self-test for her son.

20 people are tested every day in this pharmacy in Montpellier. Figures still far from the peaks of the pandemic, but it is still twice as much as last month. “With the return of the children to school, we had a lot of requests for tests and self-tests for contact cases.explains Ahmad Bensarfadoctor of pharmacy in Montpellier. Screening in pharmacies, but also in laboratories: in France, in total, more than a million tests have been carried out over the past week. In recent days, the Covid-19 incidence rate has continued to recover, with 293 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.