Respiratory diseases: Is it useful to detect flu and Covid in a single test?

– Is it useful to detect flu and Covid in a single test?

A self-test to diagnose several diseases has emerged in France in particular. In Switzerland, its marketing is not topical.

Posted today at 4:00 p.m.

The craze for antigenic self-tests has not waned, in Switzerland as elsewhere.

Chantal Dervey/24Heures

“Oh are you sick?! Coronavirus or flu?» This question is the height of banality at the dawn of 2023. However, it is impossible to answer it precisely with symptoms that are similar between cough, cold or fever. On the French side, there is a new self-test which makes it possible to detect not only the Covid but also two types of flu, A and B. All this with a single blow of a cotton swab in the nose.