No more free PCR and antigen tests. Government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced on Wednesday the end of free non-prescription coronavirus screening tests “mid-October”.
“We have decided to mark the end of free tests outside medical prescription”, he explained, in accordance with “the announcement made by the President of the Republic in his speech of July 12″ and ” to the choices made by a certain number of our European neighbors ”.
“Repeated tests do not prevent going to the hospital”
“The repeated tests do not prevent going to the hospital and heavily contaminating. By mid-October, everyone will have had the time to organize themselves and take their responsibilities, we are also taking our own, ”he added.
In addition, the health pass will now be required in large shopping centers where the incidence rate exceeds 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, added Gabriel Attal after the Council of Ministers.
A “booster campaign” for a 3rd dose from mid-September
The “recall campaign” to inject a third dose of anti-Covid vaccine to “populations at risk” will begin in mid-September, government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced on Wednesday after the Council of Ministers.
“The meetings will open at the end of August, beginning of September, for a recall campaign which will begin in mid-September”, indicated Gabriel Attal. “The list of the populations concerned will be drawn up by the High Authority for Health,” he added. A little earlier, by opening a health defense council, President Emmanuel Macron had mentioned “vaccination reminders for people over 80 years old and particularly vulnerable from the start of the school year”.