Staff at some French testing sites strike over COVID-19 conditions


  • World
  • Wednesday, 16 Sep 2020

FILE PHOTO: People, wearing protective face masks, wait at a testing site for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Nice, September 14, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

PARIS (Reuters) - Staff at around 20 health testing clinics in southern France went on strike on Wednesday, saying that the COVID-19 outbreak had left them overworked and at risk without being properly compensated.

Some of the clinics, operated by the firm Biofusion, had to close their doors, union representatives said, though the main testing centre was still open.

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