This Thursday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced the implementation of a massive Covid-19 screening plan in Ile-de-France in order to identify possible dormant clusters. Some municipalities in the Paris region, such as Bondy in Seine-Saint-Denis, offer their inhabitants to be tested for free.
- 1.3 million preventive tests will be carried out in the coming weeks in Ile de France
- The objective is to identify possible dormant clusters
This weekend in Bondy, a town located in Seine-Saint-Denis, Covid-19 screening tests were offered free of charge. These serological tests are carried out from a blood test and make it possible to detect (or not) the presence of antibodies, and therefore to know if you have been infected with the virus.
People who wanted to be tested were able to go to the Palais des sports in Bondy from Friday June 26 until Saturday evening June 27. “In this poorest department of Ile-de-France, very affected by the virus during the epidemic, free admission is essential to identify and control possible sources of contamination.“, underlines Dr. Maxime Talybaly at the microphone of France Info.
“In our population, it is particular, because there is a supply of care which is weak, so people do not consult. And then there’s a language barrier too, where people are afraid to go to the doctor. They are afraid to pay. There are a lot of barriers to access to care, so the fact of opening these centers and offering vouchers, we are very much in favor of this kind of approach“, adds the doctor.
1.3 million preventive screenings in Ile-de-France
This Thursday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced the implementation of a massive screening plan in Ile-de-France: 1.3 million preventive screenings will be carried out in the coming weeks in order to detect possible clusters. dormant.
Until now, screening tests were only prescribed in the event of suspected contamination. This measure concerns the inhabitants of thirty municipalities in Ile-de-France. The latter will receive health insurance vouchers which will allow them to go get tested, including if they do not experience symptoms linked to the virus.
The objective of this operation is to identify people who are potentially carriers of the virus and who are asymptomatic. “It is also a question of looking at whether there are differences between the territories on the circulation and the impact of the virus.“, said the Minister of Health.
In the list of cities concerned, several municipalities in Essonne and Seine-Saint-Denis. The city of Paris will not be included, explained theIle-de-France regional health agency the newspaper The Parisian. The Ile-de-France ARS specifies that the selection of cities is established according to several criteria, in particular the number of doctors per region and the circulation of the epidemic.
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