Is France going to start mass screening, like Slovakia, the city of Liverpool, Luxembourg or China before it?
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced an
“experiment”
in Le Havre, Saint-Étienne and a town in the North.
He did not specify the type of tests used for these campaigns which could
"perhaps"
start
"before the end of the year holidays"
.
The interest of this type of massive screening of an entire population is debated.
In its information note of November 14, made public on November 30, on the strategy for the use of rapid tests, the Scientific Council studied two hypotheses: targeted screening of populations at risk, or a massive screening strategy at the end of the test. confinement.
But because of too heavy logistical constraints, the report believes,
"
it is too early to consider a campaign of 'mass testing' at the national level
";
the wise recommend
“the setting up of experiments (…) in a few metropolises”.
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