"
Prescription, Vitale card!"
, chanted the secretary.
"Next person!"
, calls the biologist.
"Please wait, we'll get back to you ..."
the phone disc repeats, meanwhile.
Endlessly.
While in accordance with the objectives set by the government, the number of virological tests (PCR) now exceeds one million per week, medical analysis laboratories are saturated.
Several are even closed because of a staff strike.
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Between the symptomatic, the contact cases, those who are about to undergo a surgery, to take a plane, and also those who come
"just to find out"
...
"We have the impression that it never stops"
, sigh the staff, who have been working on the line since the start of the school year.
At the Bioexcel laboratory in Bourges,
"we do more than 500 tests per day, from Monday to Saturday,"
says Dr Francis Guinard, who is also general secretary of the Syndicat des biologistes.
"
The big problem is the phone ringing in
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