This Friday, September 11, the Defense Council will meet again and should announce new measures to fight against the resumption of the epidemic, but these will not be “only health”, announced the President of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy .
- • Constraining measures could concern certain regions, so that the isolation of patients and contact cases is better respected.
- Binding measures could concern certain regions, so that the isolation of patients and contact cases is better respected.
- Bars and restaurants should not be forced to close prematurely
- The measures could also aim to protect people at risk
“tough decisions”. Here is in three words how the President of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, spoke of the Defense Council which is to meet on Friday September 11. This morning he clarified his thoughts on RTL referring to the fact that “the choice will not only be sanitary”. “France must leave and learn to live with the Covid“, he added.
No premature closure of bars and restaurants
The measures that will be announced by the Defense Council should therefore have no effect on the economic life of the country. “The stakes are not only health but also societal and economic”, estimates the president of the scientific council. There should be no announcement of the closure of bars and restaurants or a ban on large demonstrations as was the case in Marseille. “That’s not going to solve the problem“, he advanced.
The measures should in particular aim at the protection of people at risk for “create a kind of bubble around these people”. This concerns the elderly and people who have a pathology such as diabetes, obesity, or respiratory disease.
Emphasis should also be placed on strengthening the triptych “test/trace/isolate”. Constraining measures could be pronounced, in certain regions, so that the isolation of patients and contact cases is better respected. The Scientific Council has issued an opinion on September 3 in which he points to the failure of the fortnight device which should be shortened for contact cases.
Regarding tests, the Covid-19 screening strategy is accelerating. New centers have opened in the Paris region and new antigen and saliva tests are gradually entering the market and providing results in just a few tens of minutes.
New beds in Marseille
For several weeks, the weekly epidemiological bulletins of Public Health France follow each other and evoke the same trend, that of an epidemic rebound. The situation in certain regions is becoming worrying, such as in the Bouches-du-Rhône where hospital services are on the verge of saturation. “We could, in certain regions of France and in particular in PACA, find ourselves in a difficult situation in the supply of care in terms of intensive care beds in the coming weeks.”, confirmed Jean-François Delfraissy. To remedy this situation, new beds reserved for patients with Covid-19 will be made available in Marseille.
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