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France creates website to upload Covid self-test results

People in France who use a Covid-19 self-testing kit will be invited to upload their results to a new website launched by the health ministry on Monday.

Published: 21 June 2021 17:22 CEST
France creates website to upload Covid self-test results
Self-testing kits are available in French pharmacies. Photo: Fred TANNEAU / AFP

The French health ministry publishes detailed daily data on the number of positive Covid tests in France, but until now this has only included people whose test was done by a testing centre, medical centre or pharmacy.

Now, however, the government has created a website to allow people to report the results of tests done at home with the self-test kits.

Whether the test is positive or negative, you will be able to report your results to the website www.monautotest.gouv.fr  Users will be required to create an account on the CyberLab platform. The test results will be stored for three months before being automatically deleted.

The French government advises people who have received a positive result from a self-testing kit to confirm the results by taking a PCR test. This allows Assurance Maladie to begin the process of contact tracing.

However, there is no way of forcing people to take a PCR test after testing themselves at home. According to Le Parisien, the goal of the new website is to make sure all positive tests can be followed up with contact tracing, although it relies on people voluntarily uploading their results.

Home-testing kits are available in pharmacies for a maximum price of €6 and will this summer be widely distributed on beaches, campsites, hotels and other tourist spots, health minister Olivier Véran has announced.

Click HERE for a complete guide to how the home-test kits work.

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France reports nearly 200 cholera cases in Mayotte

Nearly 200 cases of cholera have been reported on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, which is struggling to contain the deadly epidemic.

Published: 21 June 2024 14:08 CEST
France reports nearly 200 cholera cases in Mayotte

“As of June 18th, 2024, 193 cases of cholera have been reported in Mayotte,” France’s Santé publique France health agency reported in its weekly update.

Of those, 172 were locally acquired cases, while 21 were in people infected in the neighbouring Comoros archipelago and countries on the African continent.

Cholera is an infectious disease typically causing severe diarrhoea, vomiting and muscle cramps. It spreads easily in unsanitary conditions.

Mayotte, which is home to around 320,000 people, reported its first locally acquired cases of cholera in late April, according to officials in Paris.

Two people have died since the beginning of the epidemic, one of them a three-year-old girl.

Santé publique France warned there was a particularly high risk of transmission in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, “as long as access to drinking water and sanitation is unsatisfactory”.

French authorities have been criticised for failing to secure access to drinking water to prevent a cholera epidemic in its overseas territory.

President Emmanuel Macron called for cholera to be ‘consigned to the past’ when he hosted a summit on Thursday on vaccine production in Africa.

Many parts of Africa have recently seen fatal outbreaks of cholera, which has highlighted the shortage of local vaccine production.

The Comoros, which has been affected by a cholera epidemic for the past four months, has recorded 134 deaths and more than 8,700 cases, according to a report published by local authorities this month.

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