While demand is still strong with the Omicron variant, some worried about a possible shortage of anti-Covid tests.

The hiccups on the health protocol at school, which provided for self-tests to be given to parents whose child was in contact, only reinforced this fear.

Government spokesman Gabriel Attal, during a visit to a health product distribution warehouse in Saint-Ouen on Friday, therefore assured that there would be no lack of self-tests.

“The stocks are coming, they are in number, 11 million have been delivered this week and they will continue to be delivered” to pharmacies, he said, acknowledging “difficulties” at the start of the Omicron wave.

To meet demand, when a new record of 12 million tests per week was reached last week, "the French State Public Health stock of self-tests has been destocked", he announced. to the press.

Ongoing dialogue after the strike in National Education

For Gabriel Attal, the government is maintaining the “course” in the face of the Covid: “keeping the country open”, “keeping the schools open”, despite the multiplication of contaminations. For this, the relaxed health protocol now asks students with contact cases to produce three negative self-tests, without the obligation of an antigen or PCR test, to continue going to class, as Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Monday.

This relaxation was not enough to prevent a massive strike Thursday in the National Education to denounce in particular the lack of consultation on the part of the government.

Following the mobilization, the unions were received on Thursday evening by the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health and the Minister of National Education.

A “continuous dialogue will now take place between representatives of educational personnel and the government with the Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Health, twice a month”, assured the government spokesperson.

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