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Covid-19: end of a week of tests in Roubaix with modest attendance

2021-01-16T18:13:43.811Z


In the six centers opened for the “Roubaix without Covid” operation, only 5,304 people came to be tested between Monday and Saturday. 66 of them tested positive.


The Covid-19 screening campaign organized since Monday in Roubaix, which was to assess the impact of the holidays and the presence of the British variant among the positive cases, ended on Saturday January 16 without having drawn crowds, according to the figures communicated by the ARS.

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In the six centers opened for the “

Roubaix without Covid

” operation,

5,304

people came to be tested between Monday and Saturday and 66 were tested positive according to the figures released every day by the Regional Health Agency of Hauts- de-France, organizer of this large-scale campaign.

The town hall of Roubaix, a city of 97,000 inhabitants, had not wished to mention a quantified target but Professor Philippe Froguel, geneticist and member of the steering committee of this campaign, said on Monday that he hoped that 20 to 30% of the 97,000 Roubaisiens would come to be tested.

The authorities also insisted that the 30,000 people who worked in Roubaix without residing there could also benefit from the screening campaign.

Another campaign in Saint-Étienne

Roubaix experienced this fall, during the second wave of the epidemic, extremely high incidence rates, with more than 1,100 new cases over 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants.

Thanks to a double test, antigenic and PCR, on each participant, and to a sequencing of all the positive samples, the Roubaix campaign was to make it possible to assess the reliability of the antigenic tests and to get an idea of ​​the possible circulation of the variant. British.

Another vast Covid-19 screening campaign was launched on Wednesday in Saint-Etienne and is due to last a week.

Previous operations organized in Havre and Charleville-Mézières had not been marked by a massive participation of the population.

Source: lefigaro

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