Until now, the government has refused to impose any constraint on the subject, despite the epidemic rebound, coupled with influenza and bronchiolitis epidemics.
by Delphine Roucaute
More than six months after the obligation of the port of the mask in public transport, will it make its return to trains and buses? The Committee for Highlight and Anticipation of Health Risks (Covars), supposed to guide the government in its management of epidemics, has just been seized by the executive on this issue, with the aim of advancing quickly.
Monday, November 28, the nineteen scientists and patient representatives had already announced working on a new opinion concerning the Epidemia of Covid-19 as a whole. The President of Covars, Brigitte Autran, had made an appointment “within ten days”. This opinion will be published in the coming days. For its part, the Ministry of Health assured, Thursday 1 er December, “regularly seize the covars on many subjects”, including the Covid. “Covars therefore fully exercises its role as a lookout,” it was added.
If the mask remains highly recommended in public transport, it is clear that very few people wear it. So far, the government has refused to reintroduce constraints in the daily life of the French, including during the eighth wave of Covid, at the beginning of autumn. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, surprised, Tuesday, November 29, by the insistence of her “solemn call” to the French population from the National Assembly: “Let us respect barriers, wears the mask as soon as we are with people fragile or in promiscuity areas such as public transport. “No obligation, therefore, but a reminder of the” responsibility “of each in the face of the virus.
The” bet “of responsibility
If this recall is made today, assures the Prime Minister, it is certainly related to the epidemic rebound of the ninth wave of COVID-19, observed since mid-November, but also “because our hospital will also face additional pressure “: there is an extremely intense bronchiolitis epidemic and an early seasonal flu. The respiratory viruses responsible for these three epidemics are transmitted in the same way and putting the mask would help brake their circulation.
For his part, the Minister of Health, François Braun, reiterated, Thursday, in the program “C à vous”, on France 5, to make the “bet” of the sense of responsibility of the French. “If you do not want us to have additional deaths, put the mask. I believe in the good will of the French when we explain to them,” he said, adding despite everything: “depending on the evolution , we may have to take other measures. “
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