“Flood” the country with tests to fight more effectively against Covid-19. The president of the PACA region (Les Rรฉpublicains) is requesting more resources to massively test the French population.
Antigen tests provide results in 15 to 30 minutes. They can be performed in pharmacies or by doctors and nurses.
The politician, also President of Regions of France, believes that the significant deployment of these tests would be an advantage over PCR tests, which take on average 24 to 48 hours to deliver a result.
Authorized in early October by the Haute Autoritรฉ de Santรฉ, they were initially authorized experimentally for a screening campaign among the staff of 80 nursing homes in รle-de-France or in the Grand Est region before being made more widely available.
During the last week of November, approximately 1.1 million PCR tests were conducted and about 200,000 antigen tests.