2023-08-04 10:40:00
A few days after the end of the festivities, positive cases for the coronavirus multiplied, to the point that some pharmacies no longer have self-tests available.
By Isabelle Missiaen for Le Point The Bayonne Festival brought together 1.3 million people this year. © GAIZKA IROZ / AFP Published on 08/04/2023 at 10:40 a.m.
The Bayonne Festival ended on Sunday July 30 in the Basque city, after bringing together 1.3 million participants over five days. Just two days later, several city pharmacies ran out of self-tests, reports France Blue. And for good reason, the festivities have led to an outbreak of Covid-19 cases, confirmed by the region’s screening laboratories.
At the Rigaudières pharmacy in Bayonne, the forty self-tests in stock were completely sold out between Monday and Tuesday. “From two self-tests per week, we went to fifteen per day”, testifies the pharmacist Cécile Rigaudières to the local radio. As for the Somed center at Arsenal, a screening laboratory, “in three days, I did around thirty tests”, says nurse Alexandra Fauvelle, who adds that “between 70 and 80% of antigenic tests are positive”.
No serious cases in hospital
If the increase in cases is indisputable, Public Health France is however tempering the extent of this epidemic recovery: “We are at 13 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, specifies Laurent Filleul, head of the New Aquitaine regional unit of the agency of health. We remain at a low level of circulation and, for the moment, there are no serious cases in the hospital. »
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