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PARIS: The French government criticized on Wednesday (August 5) its POLICY of detecting COVID-19 loose for everyone, as queues at some control centres in Paris and at locations across the country were running out amid an outbreak of infections.
A federation of leading labs said an abrupt july 25 decree made testing loose and over-the-counter, which put pressure on many workers at a time when many staff members are going on vacation. Political parties at war have ridiculed a politics in disarray.
“To prove someone is useless. You have to be a target,” epidemiologist Didier Pittet, who heads a government-appointed working group that monitors the COVID-19 remedy, told Europe 1.
France, like many of its European neighbours, is witnessing a proliferation of new coronavirus groups.
The number of COVID-19 patients in extensive care increased on Tuesday for the time-in-a-row day, reversing a 16-week downward trend. The disease has killed more than 30,000 people in France.
France is recently testing another 576,000 people a week, a spokesman for the Ministry of Fitness told Reuters on Wednesday, up from 200,000 when President Emmanuel Macron began to flex one of Europe’s strictest blockades.
It’s working, health minister Olivier Veran said over the weekend. “The virus no longer haunts us, we are tracking it,” he told Le Parisien.
The ministry spokesman said the “localized problems” insisted that France had selected the right strategy.
But Lionel Barrand, who heads the Federation of the National Union of Young Medical Biologists, said the open verification strategy is like finding a needle in a haystack and feeding the labs.
“The government has thrown sand on our wheels. He sent many other people to the labs without warning,” Barrand told Reuters.
Frustrated by the reluctance of some laboratories to invest in labor and operational adjustments needed to conduct testing, the government had requisitioned some of them, a government official said.
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