A large-scale Covid-19 screening operation will be organized from Monday in the agglomerations of Charleville-Mézières and Sedan, in the Ardennes, due to a delicate health situation, the mayor of Charleville said Tuesday, December 8, Boris Ravignon.
Read also: Covid-19: after Le Havre and Saint-Etienne, massive screening planned in Roubaix
The Regional Health Agency of Grand-Est, without confirming this operation announced Tuesday by the Union, referred to a press conference on Friday "
on this subject of screening
", in a message to AFP.
Mayor of Charleville-Mézières and president of the Ardenne Métropole agglomeration community, which brings together 58 municipalities including Charleville-Mézières and Sedan, or 122,000 inhabitants, Boris Ravignon said he had filed a request with the Ministry of Health last week, which l 'agreed "
very quickly
".
“
We are one of the most affected departments of France with more than 210 confirmed positive cases out of 100,000 inhabitants.
We are very far from a return to normal
”, he justifies, noting“
a new epidemic outbreak in an already bad context
”.
In addition to pharmacies, hospitals and city doctors who already perform tests, Ardenne Métropole and the Regional Health Agency have identified between eight and ten additional sites, mainly in municipal facilities, to accommodate this mass screening.
"
We still need to refine the system, in particular to find enough
samplers", explains Ravignon, for whom "
it is clearly a question of saving Christmas and New Year's Day and doing everything so that these holidays, including people need, do not become a health disaster
”.
This massive screening, which is mainly aimed at voluntary and symptomatic people, should take place in three phases: from December 14 to 19, then from December 21 to 23 and finally from December 28 to 30, according to the elected official.
As of December 6, the latest report established by the prefecture, the Ardennes department had nearly 9,500 confirmed Covid-19 cases.
Massive screenings must also take place in Le Havre, Saint-Etienne and Roubaix.
