" I'm exhausted.
And I think it's the same for all my colleagues.
"For Carole Assous, pharmacist in the 15th arrondissement, the period is intense.
In his pharmacy, customers parade incessantly.
The majority of them are here to get tested, in one way or another.
As the end of the year holidays approach, many Parisians want to acquire self-tests to spend time with their family in complete safety.
70% reliable, the self-tests, at 5.20 euros per unit, are antigenic tests.
But the self-tests work with a sample taken by the user himself, using a swab inserted less far into the nostril.
This is a nasal test, not a nasopharyngeal test.
"Most laboratories are out of stock, others say it happens at the end of the month, it varies", assures us the pharmacist from the south of Paris.
These, although useful, are "less reliable" than the PCR or antigen test and are not "a totem of immunity", according to the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, who recommends that the French perform a self-test. day of the festivities.
