With the increase in the number of cases detected per day, the authorities take more measures to counter the rebound of the epidemic.
Port of the mask extended to the Champs-Elysées, call of doctors to impose it in business, pilgrimage to Lourdes under the supervision… initiatives to avoid a second wave of the Covid-19 in France.
“as a physician, I think the situation is very worrying, as a citizen, I’m afraid, I’m not sure that we found the “world before”, releasing this Saturday on BFMTV professor Xavier Lescure, a specialist in infectious diseases at the hospital Bichat (Paris).
The doctor fears a “second wave much longer, with more impact on the economic, cultural, global,” while Great Britain has just ordered 14 days of isolation for travelers arriving from France.
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Multiplication of actions
An indicator of particular concern. The number of cases of coronavirus is on the rise again : 2846 in 24 hours recorded Friday, a new record since may, the month of the déconfinement. An effect of mass screening in course but not only, since the positivity rate in the population steadily increases.
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This trend led to a proliferation of preventive measures taken by the authorities. Even if for the moment the number of daily deaths is a far cry from the dark times (18 in the last 24 hours, 30 406 in total since the beginning of the epidemic), and that the situation in the icu is stable (367 cases, or 7 less in 24 hours).
The requirement to wear a mask outside stretches on a daily basis. Since Saturday morning 08: 00 AM, a part of the Champs-Elysées, the area around the Louvre museum and Batignolles, are now concerned. These areas were not included up here, so that some of the streets of the capital are subject to this practice since Monday morning.
“We’ve done a first bet”
“It was a first wager, and that is to stick to dense areas, if it doesn’t, we [will also extend this obligation] on any Bets,” said Anne Souyris, assistant to the mayor of Paris in charge of public Health, interviewed on BFMTV. Paris is classified since Friday, as the Bouches-du-Rhône department in which the circulation of the virus is active.
in Lourdes (Hautes-Pyrenees), the celebrations of the Assumption are upset. The access to the places of the pilgrimage of world-wide fame has been limited to 10 000 people – instead of 25 000 usually – the mask is mandatory, and many patients have given up to make the trip. Those arriving by trains healthcare, often old and of fragile health, in search of miraculous healing, will be absent this year. “It is a heart-breaking not to accommodate them”, laments Vincent Cabanac, director of the national Pilgrimage.
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But the public spaces outside are not the only ones at the center of all attentions. The calls of the medical world succeed one another in favor of the mask in some closed places frequented in a professional setting or not. This is the case of the High Council of the French public health (HCSP), which advocates for the port “systematic” in “all enclosed areas of public and private collective”.
the conclusions of The HCSP broadcast this weekend as a result of the study of publications “describing the contamination occurred in enclosed public places (restaurant, bus, cruise ships, rehearsals, choirs, etc) and some professional circles (slaughterhouses, etc)”.
“to Encourage telework”
Like an echo, the Pr Bruno Mégarbane, head of the department for intensive medical care at the hospital Lariboisière (Paris), has also recommended the wearing of the mask “in confined spaces” public ” and “in meeting domestic”, for example. “All of these ways (added to the gestures barrier, and social distancing) to prevent (…) and avoid a rebound,” provided, of course, a “strict application,” continues the specialist.
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“It is urgent to make compulsory the wearing of the mask in all enclosed spaces, in all offices, in all of the classrooms and amphitheatres, and also to encourage unambiguous telecommuting, distance-learning courses and the reorganization of classes, with staff fewer”, also write in a column published Friday by Releasing a twenty professors and doctors of medicine.
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“The virus does not think, does not move, does not jump,” said for its part, the Directorate-general of health in its balance sheet daily on Friday. “It is we who move, who come into contact with others, that sometimes we lose heart in terms of prevention. There is no fate”.
