This Wednesday, at the initiative of the Portes de France-Thionville agglomeration community and the Yutz town hall, a Covid-19 screening operation was organized at the Bestien room. The Biogroup laboratory was responsible for carrying out the operations. To come, no need for an appointment or a prescription. An identity card, the vital card and an email address are sufficient. Once the PCR test has been carried out, the sample is transferred to the Metz-Verriers technical platform. “The result is then sent to the patient in less than 12 hours on his mailbox,” explains Christelle, an operator in the medical group. Which does not notice a drop in attendance in the various screening centers. “The pace is always the same,” she testifies. “People are always apprehensive about putting the swab in the nostrils, which is certainly not very pleasant but in the end only activates the tear glands, that’s all. “
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“Might as well take the lead”
For Patrick, who came with his wife Clotilde, it is also a way to reassure himself. “At my wife’s work, four people tested positive. Might as well take the lead, ”he said, preferring not to want to play with the health of his grandmother, who he visits twice a week. “But as soon as it is possible, and that there will finally be enough doses for everyone, it is certain that I will be vaccinated,” he says. “To avoid contaminating and being contaminated” On December 18, already in the Bestien room, the screening operation had made it possible to test 312 people. Seven had tested positive.
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