CORONAVIRUS

COVID-19 – Useful information: COVID-19 and Vigipirate national security alert system, COVID-19 tests

  • COVID-19 and the Vigipirate national security alert system

Further to the staff memo of October 29 regarding the new lockdown measures introduced in France and the raising of the Vigipirate national security alert level to Urgence attentat ("Attack emergency"), access to campus is restricted following the current context :

  • Vehicle access to campus is only possible for staff with an annual parking permit (vignette) or who register by 7pm the previous day via the portal  https://telemaque.pasteur.fr/telemaque/gestion/prepa_visite.asp;

  • No cars or staff may come onto campus between 9pm and 6am except in an emergency;

  • Anyone wishing to access campus at the weekend, on a public holiday or outside the opening times must send a request by email (copying in their line manager) to astreintes@pasteur.fr by 7pm the previous day.

 

  • Diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection

The COVID-19 outbreak requires research and subsequent industrial development to produce specific diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Ideally, these tests should be both reliable and simple and quick to administer.

Since the start of the outbreak, as of October 15, 2020, 71 RT-PCR tests and 134 serological tests have been evaluated by the National Reference Center (CNR Institut Pasteur and CNR associated laboratory at the Hospices Civils de Lyon). Reports on the CNR's evaluations have been sent to the French health authorities, which are responsible for establishing a methodology for approving these tests and drawing up a first list of approved in vitro medical diagnostic tests based on the CNR's evaluations and the specifications issued by the French National Authority for Health.

As yet, it has not been made compulsory for the CNR to evaluate the performance of antigen tests and saliva tests.

The entire list of approved RT-PCR, LAMP, serological and rapid tests is available on the platform of the Ministry of Solidarity and Health.

 

 

 

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