2023-08-29 17:38:49
Since mid-August, pharmacists in the Pyrénées-Orientales have recorded an increase in screenings in their pharmacies, through the sale of self-tests, but also through those they carry out in pharmacies. “It is three to four times more than in July last where we practically did not sell a test or do screening“supports Vincent Villacampa, pharmacist in the city center of Perpignan. And the results are more and more positive:”we reach between 15 and 20% of positive cases for Covid“says Bruno Galan, pharmacist in Palau-del-Vidre and regional president of the order of pharmacists. A few days before the resumption of classes and when we would have gladly forgotten, the virus is still there.
Upsurge yes, new epidemic wave no
The incidence rate is therefore rising once more but “I want to reassure people, we are not facing a new epidemic wave“says Bruno Galan. In the Pyrénées-Orientales more than 15 out of 100,000 people tested are positive. Figures established by the ARS, but incomplete.
Indeed since July 1st the SIDEP platform, until then it was through it that pharmacists directly declared a positive case detected in their pharmacy. But without her now it is up to the patient to go to the laboratory or to a doctor to declare his infection. Covid is now a reportable disease, but once the patient leaves the pharmacy, everything depends on his willingness to carry out the reporting process.
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