THE QUESTION.
"
For the quality of our end-of-year celebrations, we must reinstate the free test
." Guest of TF1 this Wednesday, the candidate of rebellious France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, ardently pleaded for the reinstatement of free screening, which has become paying for people who have not been vaccinated since October 15. "
We do not care who is vaccinated or not, what we want to know is who is sick or not,
" argued the member of Bouches-du-Rhône, at a time when a fifth wave epidemic worries the health authorities. An opinion shared by several scientists. "
This is something that probably needs to be reconsidered
», Said Dominique Costagliola, research director at Inserm, on BFMTV.
As well as Professor Gilles Pialoux, guest on the same channel.
"
It is one more tool to detect earlier, to isolate
", he justified, arguing in particular the increase in symptoms of Covid in the winter period.
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Thursday morning, however, the government dismissed this prospect: "
It is not planned today,
" assured spokesman Gabriel Attal.
"
There is no reason that the French, with their taxes, finance tests which aim to go to the restaurant, which aim to go to the concert, which aim to go to the cinema
", asserted the megaphone of the executive.
At a time when we are talking about the possible tightening of measures for the unvaccinated, is free testing a good idea?
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