Faced with the French who relax their efforts in the face of Covid-19, the government is tempted to take action. He is considering making the isolation of contact cases compulsory and imposing heavy fines if the measure is not respected.
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- The government is considering putting people who are contact cases in compulsory isolation.
- A fine, of an amount still undefined, could be applied to those who defy the ban.
- The decision is to be discussed this week at an inter-ministerial meeting.
The time is no longer for pedagogy, but for sanction. According to information obtained by European 1, the government would consider making the isolation of people affected by Covid-19 compulsory. If this is already the case in several of our European neighbors and in certain Asian countries, with very high fines – up to 1,000 euros -, this would be a first in France.
Currently, with more than 40,000 deaths in France since the start of the epidemic and almost as many new cases detected every day, time is running out so as not to be overwhelmed by the epidemic. To stop it permanently, the government is considering mandatory follow-up for people affected by the coronavirus and asked to isolate themselves. In the event that people still leave their homes, they could receive a heavy fine, the amount of which has not yet been fixed. However, the subject should be discussed at the interministerial meeting this week.
A still perfectible tracking system
If the government plans to toughen the tone on this subject, it is nevertheless necessary to underline the shortcomings suffered by certain mechanisms put in place by the executive. First, the TousAntiCovid application, which does not necessarily indicate the presence of contact cases or people infected with the coronavirus around us, although this is its primary use.
As the site points out iGeneration, users on social networks complain of not having been alerted, the fault surely of an application which does not necessarily work depending on the operating system you are using (this is particularly the case for people with an iPhone ). This lack of communication of the application can thus happen that people discover contact cases without having been alerted.
“Test, trace, protect”
It’s beautiful but it doesn’t work.
My wife, who lives under the same roof as me, tested positive at #COVID19
So she immediately reported it on her app #TousAntiCovid.
And since (nearly 36 hours), my application always tells me that
???? pic.twitter.com/5j0w0Q1Ckr— Francois Beaudonnet (@beaudonnet) November 5, 2020
In addition, for the measure to be sufficiently effective, the tests put in place would also have to become faster, which still remains a black point for certain overwhelmed laboratories, in particular with the arrival of the second wave. If antigen tests are supposed to be faster and more reliable than RT-PCR tests, it is still difficult to find them everywhere on the territory.
Finally, the other notification and monitoring system, set up by the Health Insurance this time, is hardly more sophisticated. Until the beginning of the month, it was on the Health Insurance mailbox that contact cases were notified. The problem is that this device was only intended for people over 18, de facto eliminating potential infected minors (even if cases are rare, their immunity to the virus being much better than that of adults ). Since November 3, it is now by SMS that all contact cases are notified, in order to reach a wider audience.
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