In France, the government has placed the Covid-19 screening policy with vaccination at the heart of its epidemic control strategy. But faced with the surge of the Omicron variant, laboratories are overloaded with the influx of patients. Report from Épinal, in eastern France.
To cope with this influx, the government announced on Sunday that it wanted to strengthen testing capacities with the creation of several hundred testing centers in the country. A policy more and more often questioned while in the laboratories, the personnel are under strain.