Carrying out an anti-Covid test at the veterinarian is now possible.
"In order to be able to meet the very high demand for individual screening tests", the government has expanded the professionals authorized to carry out these samples, we can read in a decree published in the Official Journal, Thursday, January 20.
To "deal with the very high demand for individual screening tests", the list has been opened to the following disciplines: "speech therapist, chiropodist, orthoptist, medical physicist, occupational therapist, psychomotor therapist, audioprosthetist, dietician, optician-eyewear maker, orthoprosthetist, pedorthist, ocularist, epithetist, orthopaedist-orthotist, dental assistant”.
Eleven million tests carried out last week
Also concerned are veterinarians and veterinary public health inspectors “holders of a diploma, certificate or title allowing the exercise of veterinary activities in France”.
These new professions will have to carry out these tests “under the responsibility of an authorized health professional”, specifies the decree.
More than 11 million Covid-19 screening tests were carried out last week, slightly less than the record recorded after the start of the school year in January and down for the first time since All Saints' Day, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday. Health.
The tests are settling but remain massive: 11.3 million PCR and antigen screenings were validated between January 10 and 16, against nearly 12.1 million the previous week, specifies the Directorate of Statistics (Drees) in a press release .