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Before meeting up with family or friends, many prefer to be tested. Since December 23, more than a million tests are carried out every day in France. A frantic pace for pharmacies and laboratories, sometimes on the verge of rupture.
Many of them wait for the opening in front of a pharmacy in Orléans (Loiret), Friday, December 31. Everyone is rushing to do an antigen test, so they can wake up peace of mind. The samples are taken in the assembly line. “Yesterday I did 140, and I was exhausted“Says a pharmacy preparer. Same pressure from supermarkets, as in Caen (Calvados), where self-tests are out of stock.
The highly contagious Omicron variant has become the majority in France. It now represents 62.4% of the cases collected. The queues are also long in front of the laboratories. There was several meters of tail, Friday December 31, to be tested in front of a center of Lille (North). On Christmas Eve, more than 1.5 million tests had been carried out by the French.