The government has unveiled its new arsenal to counter the 5th wave of Covid-19 which is hitting France hard.
Among the measures to curb the increase in contamination in the country, Olivier Véran announced on Thursday the reduction to 24 hours of the validity of PCR tests.
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The goal: to push the recalcitrant to the vaccination to cross the course.
“From Monday, November 29, and since the virus is circulating much more today, the validity of a PCR test is reduced to 24 hours, unlike the 72 hours previously in place.
You will therefore have to be tested every day if you are not vaccinated ”specified the Minister of Health.
A test every day if you are not vaccinated
The use of the health pass should evolve, "for a more controlled use", we explained on Wednesday, with a validity of the anti-Covid test which will go from 72 hours to 24 hours.
“Before, we had to do it every three days, now it will be every day for people who need to go to places where the pass is required”.
In the new measures that Olivier Véran announced this Thursday, no new confinement or curfew, and no gauges imposed in places of public gathering.
“It is not at all relevant.
We want the French to be able to spend the Christmas holidays together, ”slips a government source.