To meet the significant demand for anti-Covid tests, the government has decided to extend the list of professions authorized to carry out these samples.
A decree was published this Friday morning in the Official Journal, signed by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
A total of 17 new professions can now perform “
nasopharyngeal, oropharyngeal, salivary or nasal
” tests.
Here is the full list:
Speech Therapist ;
pedicures-podiatrist;
orthoptist;
medical physicist;
Occupational therapist ;
psychomotrician;
audioprosthetist;
dietitian;
optician-eyewear maker;
orthoprosthetist;
pedorthist;
ocularist;
epithetist;
orthopaedist-orthotist;
dental assistant;
veterinarians;
veterinary public health inspectors.
It should be noted that these professions can only carry out tests “
under the responsibility of a health professional
” (doctor, dental surgeon, midwife, pharmacist, masseur-physiotherapist or nurse).
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In its decree, the executive justifies its decision to open up the screening capacity to new professions by the "
very lively circulation of the epidemic
", and the need "
to meet the very high demand for individual screening tests
".
Last week, no less than 11.3 million samples were validated by a health professional, according to data from the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (Drees), a figure despite everything down 6.4% from the previous week.
Thursday, 425,183 people tested positive for Covid-19, according to figures from Public Health France.