A screening campaign was organized in Colombes to try to stem the South African variant -
Allili Mourad
A race against time.
This is how we could qualify the commotion of the fight deployed by the health authorities and the municipality of Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine, to try to limit the spread of the South African variant of the coronavirus.
On Thursday, a college student from the Jeanne d'Arc school group, which has more than 2,000 students from kindergarten to high school was identified as a contact case of a person who contracted this new form of Covid-19.
From then on, as in Bagneux the previous week with the British variant, the authorities organized a massive screening in the town from Saturday and until Tuesday inclusive.
Objective: to try to identify new cases as early as possible and to contain, as much as possible, this particularly contagious strain.
And obviously, the message was heard: on Saturday, according to
Le Parisien
, the authorities had to send test candidates home because the stock of swabs was exhausted.
The latter were nevertheless priority Sunday.
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