There are about fifteen of them waiting one behind the other, masked and resigned, in front of the medical analysis laboratory on rue Lafayette, in the heart of the 9th arrondissement in Paris. It is almost 10 am and "this is the first time that the line has been so short since yesterday!" , says Sevket, a local resident who takes advantage of this lull to take his place in the queue. At 65, he considers himself "at risk ". Although he has no symptoms, he wanted to be screened "as a precaution and to protect others" , since all nasopharyngeal virological tests are now reimbursed, even without a prescription, since the decree signed last weekend by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. These queues are"Well set to last all summer, even this fall since the Covid-19 may remain present when the flu returns," warns Xavier Palette, president of the National Union of Hospital Biologists (SNBH).
Without an appointment
For François Blanchecotte,
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