A strengthened testing capacity, a prevention policy and, above all, an 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 just 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,” the fitness firm said in a statement. Parisian ARS Ile-de-France.
But “despite the efforts of 591 test sites in the region, testing remains difficult due to increased demand, a shortage 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 each and every day except winter Sunday and would perform a minimum of 500 RT-PCR tests consistent with the day, with samples taken from patients with cotton swabs.
Appointments would not be necessary, but priority would go to other people with Covid-19 symptoms or who have been in contact with an inflamed person.
“The epidemic has been reborn, and we are in the birth of an effect on hospitals,” Aurélien Rousseau, director of ARS Ile-de-France, told Le Parisien newspaper, adding the occupancy rate of beds in the unit of intensive care (ICU) for patients with Covid. in the region it had fallen from 15 to 18% in one week.
Rousseau also explained that testing sites would increase efforts to shorten wait times for testing and getting results.
“We need to prevent other people from deciding not to get tested because of the long lines outside the labs,” Rousseau said. “We need to prioritize testing and shock effects within 24 hours, rather than the 36 hours that have passed on average lately in Ile-de-France. “
Metropolitan labs are running more than 700,000 consistent tests per week lately.
Health officials warn of a higher infection rate. In its most recent report on Tuesday, national fitness firm SpF said 5. 2% of tests were positive in the week after. The rate does not exceed 2% from May to July and has been increasing since the beginning of August.
Hospital admissions and the occupancy rate for extensive care packages have also increased in recent weeks, with doctors in the southern city of Marseille expressing specific concern.
The rapid control effects are vital to contain the spread of the disease, since scientists a user is most contagious within the first five days of infection.
Also on Wednesday, the Parisian public hospital organization AP-HP said it was comparing how to speed up and expand screening with antigen tests, which were not as reliable as RT-PCR tests, but gave effects within 30 minutes.
The concept would be to temporarily isolate patients with positive effects of an antigen and verify their case with an RT-PCRArray
Hospitals in Paris have ordered 100,000 tests and were about to start this week to assess their “reliability under real conditions. “