Soon, the French will be able to test themselves for Covid-19.
The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, announced this Friday, on Brut, the sale of these self-tests in pharmacies on April 12.
"From April 12, pharmacies will be able to sell self-tests to those who wish to buy them", announced the minister in a live interview.
“The self-tests, France bought some.
We are starting to deploy them in the context of operations that we will be carrying out in specific environments, where it is more complicated to be tested, in Overseas Territories, for example, or in precarious environments, and also at young people, ”explained Olivier Véran.
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These self-sampling nasal tests are easier and less disagreeable than deep nasopharyngeal tests, the gold standard for current RT-PCR and antigen testing.
According to the notice published on March 16 by the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), any positive self-test must then be confirmed by an RT-PCR test, in particular to be able to count it as a positive case and to characterize a possible variant.
