Covid-19: Advice to the population to remember

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If contamination is suspected, with or without symptoms, it is imperative not to go to your doctor's office. He must first be reached by telephone.

Antigenic tests complement the COVID screening system based, so far, on RT-PCR tests, which remain the most sensitive. PCR tests therefore remain the priority, in particular for symptomatic people or risky contact cases. They also remain the benchmark for travelers. It is only if RT-PCR tests are not available within the allotted time frame that antigenic tests complete the device for travelers. Since then, they have been offered to travelers who leave Saint-Martin to stay (more than 48 hours) in Guadeloupe. These tests will also be offered to staff working in health, social and medico-social establishments in our archipelago for major collective screening campaigns; especially when they return from leave.

The TAP / RIPOSTE COVID-19 platform, still listening on 05 90 99 14 74, is evolving with a new unit, in order to best respond to the State's strategy based on three pillars, Tester Alert Protect (TAP).

In conjunction with the partners of the health insurance (CGSS) and Public Health France, it carries out very important investigative work to identify contact cases and for requests for information on the methods of screening (difficulties for appointments). you with the laboratories, contact details of screening centers, planning of itinerant screening in municipalities, screening for flights from mainland France or the West Indies, preventive measures to be put in place in companies and procedures to have employees tested, what to do for contact persons, requests for screening in public or private establishments, etc.). The platform continues to process a large number of calls and monitor compliance with isolation measures.

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