Do everything not to leave positive and potentially contagious people in nature.
Those who carry out a self-test to find out if they have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 are now called on to indicate whether they have been positive or negative on the site www.monautotest.gouv.fr, launched on Monday.
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The decree allowing this novelty was published on Saturday in the Official Journal.
It provides for the creation of a “Covid-19 Autotest Portal” containing personal information, the person's consent, the conditions for carrying out the test, and the result.
The data transmitted will be pseudonymized and those relating to the tests will be kept for three months.
The site first asks, if it has not already been done, to create an account on the secure CyberLab platform.
It is then necessary to fill in the date, the place, the framework in which the self-test was carried out, the name, the first name, the year of birth, the sex, and the result (positive, negative, or "undetermined").
It is also essential to tick the box indicating that we "consent to the data being used for statistical or epidemiological purposes".
The form on the site monautotest.gouv.fr
As Le Parisien noted, no proof is required.
It is therefore possible, in itself, to fill in a false profile or with false information.
Conversely, it is not possible to ensure that everyone will complete the form.
The warnings of the HAS
This site was set up to prevent positive people with a positive self-test from escaping the census and contact tracing.
They are asked to perform a PCR or antigen test to confirm the result, but they are not compelled to do so and there is no possibility of monitoring it.
"The traceability of self-tests is not guaranteed, thus impacting the evolution of the epidemic or even isolation measures or the search for contact cases", warned the High Health Authority in its opinion issued on March 16 . Faced with this potentially “prejudicial” situation, she recommended “putting in place” “appropriate modalities”.
The urgency is all the more present today as Olivier Véran announced the deployment of 8 million self-tests "from the next few days and for the next two months". They will be able in particular "to be distributed free on the beaches, in the campsites, the hotels or the sports halls", detailed the Minister of Health in the JDD this Sunday. Only available in pharmacies for two months, the self-tests have not yet met as much public as expected.