Parisians are having to wait hours for a Covid-19 test as demand increases amid soaring new infection rates across the capital. FRANCE 24 reports from Paris.
As people queue for a Covid-19 test at a Paris laboratory, patience is wearing thin and temperatures are beginning to fray.
“When you’re waiting in line for four hours while sick, it’s hard to empathise with staff,” Florian Cassiau-Hauri, a fifth-year medical student who works at a Parisian testing laboratory, told FRANCE 24.
“It’s difficult, so we get a lot of aggression.”
In France, anyone can access a Covid-19 test for free and usually without an appointment. Longer waiting times, while frustrating for many, are a result of an influx of holidaymakers returning home to Paris after summer vacations in July and August.
Paris has responded to the increased demand for tests by opening a new pop-up laboratory in front of the City Hall.
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