While the number of deaths keeps on rising in France (at least 6,507 deaths according to the latest report from the Health Directory) and screening tests are still not performed on a big scale in France, Olivier Véran has announced on Twitter on March 3rd, 2020, that screening tests will be allowed from Monday April 6th in city laboratories as well as veterinary laboratories and police laboratories among others.
“Hospital, city, departmental, veterinary, research, police laboratories. I hear and greet all those volunteering to take part in the national effort for #COVID19 tests. Authorizations this WE. Mobilization of resources starting Monday” the Health Minister writes.
A decision in tune with the demand from the Ordre National des Vétérinaires [Veterinary National Order] to perform screening tests. “The veterinary field is widely used to treat epidemic diseases” Veterinary National Order board chairman Jacques Guérin said this past March 31st on France Info.
And this, while the Agence Française du Médicament [French Medication Agency] authorized two medications based on propofol, usually reserved for veterinary use, to be used on humans, on intensive care.
A decision that would lead to widely curb the spread of coronavirus.
