Health Pass: a giant QR Code breakdown rots the weekend of August 15 – Hitek.fr

A gigantic failure of QR Code occurs on this weekend of August 15, and this while the health pass continues to be controversial.

A weekend under pressure

Announced July 12 during the presidential address, the health pass was introduced on July 21, and extended to bars and restaurants, as well as means of transport on August 9. While the political class is preparing for a day of major mobilizations across France, we learn that this weekend of August 15 is marked by a giant QR Code failure.

Indeed, since Friday August 13 at 4 p.m., the SI-DEP portal, which allows pharmacists to enter the results of antigenic tests in order to deliver a QR Code to the persons tested, is experiencing significant malfunctions, on a national level. As a result, people who tested negative could not benefit from their health pass.

The reason for the failure would be udo not overload the servers, due to too many people having to be tested to enjoy the weekend. (Remember that unvaccinated people are not the only ones who have to test negative: this also concerns first-time vaccines and people who had the second dose injected less than seven days ago.)

Philippe Denry, vice-president of the FSPF (Federation of Pharmaceutical Unions of France) called on Minister Olivier Véran on Twitter to increase server capacity, to prevent the problem from repeating. His tweet has since been removed.

While the failure was visibly resolved this morning, it would seem that, however, pharmacists are once again having difficulty using the SI-DEP portal. At least that’s what Philippe Denry announced on his Twitter page. Comments confirmed by many other pharmacists.

#sidep # Covid_19 after an improvement this morning the sidep servers #test are again inaccessible !! #urgent to find a solution for pharmacists and patients @fspf_officiel request that the results sheets are worth a sanitary pass @sosergent @olivierveran

August 14, 2021

The vice-president of the FSPF asks the Ministry of Health that the results sheets have the value of a health pass. While waiting for a positive response from the government, many citizens find themselves in embarrassment, and unable to go to places of culture, terraces and restaurants.

As said above, this failure only concerns the antigenic tests carried out in pharmacies, and which make it possible to obtain a result in 15 minutes. PCR tests, used in laboratories, do not seem to be affected by the problem.