Faced with the coronavirus, France has massively equipped itself with screening equipment. The epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet, member of the Scientific Council, however believes that France does not do enough tests and that it does not use its capacity to the full.
"We have a testing capacity that goes up to 100,000 tests per day," he said, but "this testing capacity is not used enough, we are at around 30,000 tests per day." For Arnaud Fontanet, it would be necessary to go up to approximately "50,000 tests per day", by testing people who have symptoms of Covid-19, but also by carrying out more test campaigns directly with the populations, as was the case in Ile-de-France with centers located in streets or on market places. "These are very nice initiatives," he said.
30,000 deaths linked to the epidemic
After the music festival, where open-air gatherings took place without respecting social distancing, the researcher recalled that "most of the clusters (...) take place in a confined environment". However, "if you have, in the midst of these young people dancing, an infected subject and in particular a super-contaminator (…), a very contagious person (…) she will of course under these conditions infect a lot", did he warned. According to him, between 10 and 20 people can then be reached.
France has recorded since the beginning of March nearly 30,000 deaths in connection with this epidemic, which is now considered to be under control. According to the latest report, Monday evening, 23 additional deaths were recorded in 24 hours and the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care continues to decrease at the same time.
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