The Interior minister Christophe Castaner had estimated the 10 may not be shocked “to take specific measures for the Corse” this summer.
a health-care professional island and continental call in an open letter to the “regulation” of the people who come to Corsica this summer, fearing that “a rebound of the epidemic” of Covid-19 for the “dramatic consequences” due to the “number of beds limited”.
“In the current state of the pandemic, the arrival not controlled in several tens of thousands of travelers would undermine our ability to care, in human terms and in terms of material resources. Our caregivers are exhausted and our number of beds is limited,” write the doctors, pharmacists, dentists, midwives, nurses and physiotherapists, public and private. Among them, seven professors of medicine Marcel Rufo or Andreas Stein of the university hospital Institute Méditerranée Infection (IHU) of Marseille, france, led by Didier Raoult. Several presidents and members of the councils of the order of the island of Beauty are also signatories.
measures “strong, human, ethical and professional”
“We are aware of the economic and social issues and wish for success to be as broad as possible of the tourist season”, they write, arguing that “the implementation of measures, strong, human, ethical, and ethical,” without specifying which.
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“We are ready to discuss (these measures) in the coming days”, they added, without mentioning the proposal to passport health or “green pass” as put forward by the chairman of the executive board Gilles Simeoni.
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In a 40 page report detailing its plan to phase out confinement for Corsica and approved by the Corsican Assembly in early may, the autonomist Gilles Simeoni called up from the June 23, of this “green pass” which should be a condition for entry into the island of Beauty to the presentation of a negative test at Covid-19. In total, 72% of tourists in Corsica are French, according to the report.
For the time being, the government has not indicated any measures that it might consider to Corsica. The Interior minister Christophe Castaner had estimated the 10 may not be shocked “to take specific measures for the Corse” while doubting that “the tests such that they have been proposed by Gilles Simeoni and the territorial Community” are the solution.
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“Covid-19”, the new coronavirus
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another island in europe, Iceland, plans to establish a similar system from 15 June to limit the outbreak on its soil. The epidemic of Covid-19 was 72 dead in Corsica, according to the health authorities.
