The sale of self-tests to detect Covid-19 has been authorized outside pharmacies “exceptionally and until January 31, 2022”
The supermarket chains have sold “between 1.5 and 2 million“Covid-19 self-tests between December 28 and January 2, according to the data analysis company IRI, cited by the media specialist in the LSA sector.
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Nearly 500,000 boxes of self-tests, which can contain one or more self-tests, were sold in four days of sale, on December 28, 29, 30, 2021 and January 2, 2022, according to IRI, for a turnover of 3 million euros and “between 1.5 and 2 million self-testsSold, says IRI’s Emily Mayer.
The sale of self-tests to detect Covid-19 has been authorized outside pharmacies “exceptionally and until January 31, 2022By the government to cope with the explosion in demand in the context of the fifth wave of Covid-19.
Before the Laws Committee of the National Assembly on December 29, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran had indicated that the pharmacies had “distributed more self-tests in a few days than in the last six months“, About 6 million the week of Christmas. By adding the 7.3 million PCR and antigen tests performed over the same period, “we went up to more than 13 million tests“, He underlined.
“This is a derogation, but in no case should it contravene the question of the pharmaceutical monopoly for medical devices in the long term.“, He had specified.
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