As the pandemic progresses in the country, some French people do not plan to go to be tested for fear of losing their jobs.

Europe 1 handed the microphone to these craftsmen, self-employed or members of the liberal professions.

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With the resurgence of coronavirus cases, long, sometimes endless, queues are forming in front of analysis laboratories.

Conversely, some French people categorically refuse to be tested, even if they have been around infected people, for fear of losing their job.

Europe 1 interviewed these workers, most of the time craftsmen, the self-employed or the liberal professions.

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Fear of lost wages

Stéphanie, human resources manager for a group of coffee shops, admits it bluntly: taking the test means risking losing your job or at least part of your salary.

"I will not go to be tested even if I had to do it because of people tested positive, for the simple reason that my children should stay at home," she says.

"Then I would not be able to go to work and I would have a loss of wages, because the company for which I work does not make additional wages." 

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"It is not possible to close the restaurant, economically it is death"

For some small business owners, getting tested is unimaginable.

Jean Dufour, who runs a small restaurant in Essonne, has already lost 70,000 euros during confinement and cannot imagine for a single moment closing his establishment.

“If I have symptoms I would go get tested, but I would keep it to myself. I am going to say that I have symptoms of the coronavirus, and therefore I will close my establishment?” He asks.

"We are going to reconfine ourselves individually under the pretext that we are tested positive, as if we had the plague? It is not possible to close the restaurant. Economically, it is death," he says.

If the restorer is positive, he still ensures that he will wear the mask "at 200%".

And he believes that by washing his hands constantly, in his job, he will not put others at risk.