Jérôme Salomon, Director General of Health -
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Invited this Sunday of the show BFM Politics, the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, announced that self-tests would be offered for sale "from this week", in supermarkets or pharmacies, depending on the ease of one or the other.
He continued: “The real question for me is scientific evaluation.
We cannot allow tests that would give false negatives, or false positives.
It is therefore necessary to be certain that these tests are reliable and then that the French can have a confirmation of the test for the coronavirus.
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These self-tests, already implemented in many European countries, can, as their names indicate, be done alone and at home.
Which is not without posing a new problem: how to ensure the other two steps after testing it, namely alert and protect.
"The question is how then we trigger the system to have the follow-up of the person and ensure that with the Health Insurance we have the contact tracing device, because if we no longer warn your contacts, it's a real problem, ”explained the director general of health.
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