According to calculations by the daily “Les Echos”, 28 million screening tests were reimbursed by Social Security for the month of December 2021 alone … For an amount of one billion euros
“According to our information, around 30 million antigenic or PCR tests were carried out in December, of which 28 million were reimbursed. The support of the latter, at 100% and without advance of costs, should cost Social Security a trifle of 1 billion euros for a single month “reveals this Tuesday the daily” Les Echos “. These screening tests cost 2.2 billion euros in 2020.
“Just the week of Christmas, 6.8 million tests, PCR and antigens, were carried out, a” new record, mainly “due to 16-65 years, confirms the Ministry of Health. When a “daily volume record” was observed on December 23, with 1.55 million tests performed in a single day, before Christmas Eve, detailed for its part the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics. A level never recorded since the start of the pandemic.
1 million daily tests
“Over the whole year, the government had planned a financial envelope of 6 billion” the economic daily continues to confirm … Low in view of the number of tests, no doubt exponential to come in the coming months due to the new Covid-19 protocol for people positive and contact cases. The multiplication of the latter for the students, recommended by the Minister of National Education, announcing, this Sunday: “two free self-tests” for the latter before a possible return to school. According to various estimates, 1 million tests are currently carried out on a daily basis.
Fortunately, the daily continues, the average cost for health insurance has fallen from 61 euros in December 2020 to 36 euros in December 2021.