Increased testing capacity, a prevention policy and, above all, the accumulation of cases with symptoms of Covid-19 have caused long lines in many of the almost six hundred laboratories and detection centers in the French capital in recent weeks. .
“In a few weeks, the efforts of independent hospitals and laboratories in Ile-de-France have made it conceivable to increase the testing capacity from 45,000 to 200,000 tests consistent with the week,” indicates the Ile-de-France fitness firm ARS Ile – de-France in a press release.
But “despite the efforts of 591 test sites in the region, testing remains complicated due to increased demand, shortages of sources and limited staff,” the firm said.
In order to accelerate and expand testing, a key component of efforts to restrain the effect of the simmering coronavirus outbreak, the region has announced that it will open 20 new tent centers across the giant urban domain that could be taken away. carried out up to 10,000 assessments consistent with the day.
Each site would operate every day unless winter Sunday and perform a minimum of 500 day-consistent RT-PCR tests, with samples taken from cotton swab patients.
Appointments would not be necessary, but priority would be given to others with Covid-19 symptoms or who have been in contact with an inflamed person.
“The epidemic has been reborn, and we are at the birth of the effect in hospitals,” Said Aurélien Rousseau, director of ARS Ile-de-France, to Le Parisien newspaper, adding the bed occupancy rate in the intensive care unit (ICU) for Covid patients. region had fallen from 15% to 18% in a week.
Rousseau also explained that sites would stimulate efforts to shorten wait times and results.
“We don’t need other people not to get tested because of the long queues in front of the labs,” Rousseau said. “We must prioritize testing and get effects delivered within 24 hours, rather than the 36 hours that have passed lately. average in Ile-de-France. “
Labs and other fitness services in the city are spending more than a million tests each week.
Health officials warn of a higher rate of infection. In its most recent report on Tuesday, national fitness firm SpF said 5. 2% of the tests were positive in the following week. The rate does not exceed 2% from May to July and has been widening since the beginning of August.
Hospital admissions and the occupancy rate of extensive care sets have also increased in recent weeks, and doctors in the southern city of Marseille expressed a specific concern.
The rapid control effects are vital to contain the spread of the disease, as scientists a user is most contagious within the first five days of infection.
Also on Wednesday, the Paris state hospital organization AP-HP said it was comparing how to speed up and expand detection with antigenic tests, which were not as reliable as RT-PCR tests, but produced effects within 30 minutes. .
The concept would be to temporarily isolate patients with positive effects from an antigen and verify their case with an RT-PCRArray
Hospitals in Paris ordered 100,000 antigenic tests and were about to begin assessing their “reliability in real-world conditions” this week.