The University of Lorraine launched a Covid-19 screening campaign on its campuses on Monday.
Antigenic tests, which deliver their results in less than half an hour, for teachers and 60,000 students.
What encourage the latter, often asymptomatic, to be tested.
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How can we ensure that asymptomatic Covid-19 carriers get tested and thus avoid infecting others?
To this question, crucial to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the University of Lorraine has been trying to provide an answer since Monday.
A vast screening campaign was launched directly on campuses.
Antigenic tests, which are done by nasal swab and give their results in less than half an hour, even if they are a little less reliable than PCR tests, are thus offered to professors and 60,000 students.
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Among them, on the Nancy campus, Kevin, 23, who would like to return home during the holidays.
“If I'm asymptomatic, it would be better not to pass it on,” he admits.
So he jumped at the chance, was put a cotton swab in his nose, before a nurse retrieves the sample and places it on a small plastic tab.
"" It'll mark, like a pregnancy test.
One bar is negative.
If we have two crossbars, this is positive, ”explains the health professional.
No waiting, no stress
Ezra, also a student, had time to take the test between two lessons.
"I know people who have had to wait days in stress, without going out. There, it was great," she enthuses.
About 300 students and teachers were tested on Monday on the Nancy campus, for two cases of coronavirus detected.
For Kevin, it will be negative.
This does not exempt him, the nurse reminds him, "to take the right precautions": wearing a mask and washing hands are always required.
This free screening operation will last all week on all campuses of the University of Lorraine.