Long queues have formed in front of pharmacies in France.
While the government urged the French to screen before Christmas Eve, nearly 1.55 million tests were carried out in France on Thursday, according to our information.
The number of tests carried out in one day thus exceeds the 900,000 screenings carried out every day last week.
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As a result, the Covid test results platform was still saturated this evening.
Many patients tested could no longer read their results on the Sidep portal, disturbed since Friday noon.
People who plan to travel by train or plane are therefore likely to have their plans postponed.
In France, the total number of tests carried out by the French last week reached a record of more than 6.2 million screenings.
Another record was also broken this Friday: that of 94,124 new cases confirmed in 24 hours.
A situation that pushes Emmanuel Macron to act.
The Head of State will hold a Health Defense Council on Covid-19 next Monday, with the aim of "reassessing the health situation" in the words of the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal.
The vaccine as a gift
Billions of people around the world are celebrating a Christmas darkened this Friday by Covid-19 and the explosion of cases linked to the Omicron variant which lead to many restrictions on the time of family reunions.
The United Kingdom, faced with a meteoric spread of the Omicron variant, recorded more than 122,000 additional Covid-19 cases on Friday, a new record since the start of the pandemic.
Faced with this situation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the best Christmas present was… to be given a dose of the vaccine "whether it is your first or your second, or your booster".
