health professionals deplore the fact that the security protocols for places of work “do not sufficiently take into account” the risk of the spread of the virus.
Make the mask mandatory in all community spaces have been closed, including offices and classrooms, “is a matter of consistency,” said this Friday, a group of doctors, calling for a “consciousness-raising” urgent before school starts.
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While the mask is mandatory since July 20, in enclosed public places (shops, public services, etc) and that the government advocates for expanding its use to the outside, these health professionals deplore the fact that the protocols of current security for places of work “do not sufficiently take into account” the risk of the spread of the Covid-19 by aerosols suspended in the air, according to their article published online by Release.
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“In a store or at work, at The Job or in course, (…) the air flows the same way around us, and it is not often renewed, the virus spreads and accumulates (…). If the smoke of a cigarette can reach us, then the Sars-CoV-2 can just as well”, argue the signatories, including infectious diseases physician Karine Lacombe, the president of the union of liberal doctors UFMLS Jérôme Marty and the creators of the collective Stop-talking to them, who had been advocating for months to strengthen the role of the mask in the fight against the sars coronavirus. “You can’t require the wearing of a mask outdoors in certain risk situations, marginal leaving it optional in places be clearly identified as drivers of this epidemic,” they add.
The instance of the Italian government
According to the ministry of health, 49% of outbreaks of grouped cases registered are “in the workplace”. Also, “there is an urgent need 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 numbers are less numerous, as decided by, for example, the Italian government”, claim.
such A measure will also limit viral infections and febrile syndromes”, thus avoiding many of the employees are quarantined for nothing pending the results of their screening of the Covid-19, they argue. They finally warned against the temptation to “under-estimate the risk of transmission in schools”, citing a recent position paper of the German society of virology.
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meetings are planned on Friday and Tuesday, the ministry of Labour with the trade union leaders and employer groups to adapt the protocol of déconfinement applies to companies.
