While the number of tests peaks with the holidays, the SI-DEP site, delivering their results, is subject to severe slowdowns.
Before traffic jams on the motorway, traffic jams on networks. While the French continue the Covid-19 tests to return to see their families for the holidays, the results are slow to arrive … The fault of significant slowdowns since Thursday on the SI-DEP site, responsible for issuing the QR Codes.
Usually ready in three quarters of an hour, the results of antigenic tests are for some still not available more than an hour after the passage of the cotton swab. A source of annoyance for the French, for many on the departure on this New Year’s Eve. Thus, on Twitter, exasperation dominates. “Otherwise what do we do when we haven’t received the #covid test results three hours later?” annoys a Twittos.
If Thursday evening the Ministry of Health denied any failure to BFM TV, preferring to speak of a “Slowdown of the information system”, some pharmacists, for their part, expressed their frustration at the Dispatch. After Easter, Christmas 2020… Jean-Marie Guillermin, vice-president of the Order of Pharmacists of Occitanie, explains to the newspaper seeing the platform crash for the fourth time.
“It’s really painful because everyone knew there was going to be a crowd during the holidays. It was predictable”, he denounces. Especially since, with the government’s incentives to get tested, the screening figures are now at their highest. According to Public Health France, nearly 900,000 tests have been carried out daily in the run-up to the holidays.
To compensate for this “slowdown”, notes the Dispatch, some pharmacies now issue sworn statements. “But there is a risk that you will not be let through. It all depends on who controls you ”, warns Jean-Marie Guillermin. Rather nerd because the document model used to make them is the same as that transmitted by the government during the previous slowdowns of the site.