Organizational Impact of Rapid Screening for COVID-19 by Delocalized Biology in the Birth Room

COVID-19 disease, caused by SARS-CoV-2 first appeared in China, and then spread worldwide. In December 2019, a group of patients with pneumonia of unknown origin were infected after exposure to the market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Very quickly, a new coronavirus was isolated from a sample of a patient's lower respiratory tract and the complete genome of the virus was sequenced. This new coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) for its genetic homology with SARS-CoV, showed a global extension. Thus, on January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the outbreak of COVID-19 as an international public health threat, and then in March 2020, the global situation escalated to a pandemic. Johns Hopkins University reported over 7,600,000 cases of infection and over 427,000 deaths as of June 13, 2020. Due to the rapid progression of the COVID-19 pandemic and the limited molecular testing capabilities at the laboratory level, the concept of molecular testing for off-site biology examination appears relevant. Indeed, the urgent need for increased testing for COVID-19 has been clearly identified as an essential element of the strategy to combat the coronavirus worldwide. Indeed, COVID-19 represents a major public health problem currently causing rapidly increasing numbers of infections and significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. As of September 3, 2021, more than 200 million people worldwide have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and more than 4.5 million have died according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. Early detection with a sensitive COVID-19 technique is essential to ensure rapid and appropriate patient management, contain the epidemic, and better understand the global epidemiology of the virus. To date, laboratory diagnostics have relied primarily on amplification and detection of viral gene sequences in upper respiratory tract specimens performed in a centralized laboratory. A new test (ID