Getting tested while choosing a new pair of glasses is now possible! Faced with the strong circulation of the virus, the Ministry of Health authorized sixteen new professions to carry out tests… including opticians!
The government deemed it necessary to expand the list “in order to be able to meet the very high demand for individual screening tests”. It can be a “nasopharyngeal, oropharyngeal, salivary or nasal” sample according to the decree of January 20. Concretely, these are professions that relate to the medical environment. Speech therapists, podiatrists-podiatrists, orthoptists, medical physicists, occupational therapists, psychomotor therapists, audioprosthetists, dieticians, opticians-spectacle makers, orthoprosthetists, pedorthists, ocularists, epithetists, orthopedists-orthotists, dental assistants, veterinarians.
While Prime Minister Jean Castex announced the entry into force of the vaccine pass on January 24, contamination continues to explode with 425,183 people testing positive on Thursday January 20.