France, schools open and quarantine cut in half despite rising infections. Expert warning: ‘Difficult decisions in 8-10 days’

Barely twenty days have passed since the intervention of the French president, Emmanuel macron, in which the head of the Elysee rejected the hypothesis of a new lock, with the country facing the start of the new wave of infections, then 2,000 per day. Since that day, it has averaged 7-8 thousand cases every day, Dozens of schools have been closed again and new restrictions imposed. And today come the alarmed words of the president of the Scientific Council that supports the government in decisions about the pandemic, Jean-Francois Delfraissy, convinced that the executive “will be forced to take difficult decisions within a maximum period of 8 or 10 days “.

For the doctor, it is status of the epidemic in France it is “worrying”: “We can be deceptively calm” because the increased circulation of the virus has “currently little impact” on the health system, but “a very fast rise, exponentially, at a later time “, he specified, citing” in particular “the situation in the” Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur “region.

Some more critical situations have already occurred, such as that of the Marseilles, where most of the resuscitation places are occupied, so much so that the authorities are convinced to resume at the regional level the management plans for hospitalizations and transfer of patients where there are places available, as happened last spring.

“France – said Delfraissy – is at a level that worries now, which is not that of Spain but that is not far from that, with a delay of maybe fifteen days, and that is much more serious than the one in Italy“. For this reason, he stressed,” some measures will have to be adopted and a decision will have to be made within a maximum period of 8 or 10 days, taking into account the delay in the results of these measures. “The doctor focused mainly on strengthening the protection of the elderly or with risk factor’s (diabetes, obesity, respiratory diseases) to “create a kind of bubble around these people.” For the rest of the population, “France must start living again”, but remaining “very active in the strategy of test-trace-isolated“.

The evolution of the last 20 days: schools reopened and cases increased, but the quarantine was reduced by half
In just 20 days, it has gone from 2,000 cases a day to 7-8,000. In total, according to the latest updates on September 9, they have finished 335mila and contagion confirmed since the start of the pandemic and beyond 30 thousand dead, with the number of hospitalizations in resuscitation and in the other departments it continues to grow. This is far from what, at the beginning of August, had convinced 69 municipalities to return the use of outdoor masks is mandatory. Obligation that later was also extended to the capital, Paris, at the end of the month, with 21 departments that, as the situation worsened, were declared “Red zone”.

On August 20, Macron’s words rejected the hypothesis of a new blockade: “Zero risk never exists”. So much so that, with the country already traveling an average of 2,000 cases a day, the executive continued with the idea of ​​a schools reopening with the obligation of a limited adult-only mask during lessons: however, there is no provision on personal protection for children under 11 years old. In addition, France had also decided not to provide a maximum number of students per class, with the spacing not required if the school couldn’t guarantee it.

However, just three days have passed since the resumption of the school year in which, on September 4, 22 schools and 100 classrooms were closed again due to cases of coronavirus among students or teachers. “In France there are 12 schools that have been closed, out of a total of 62 thousand – specified the French Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer – a small number “plus 10 schools to The meeting, French Department in the Indian Ocean. Just two days later, the country will register 8,550 new cases in 24 hours, after having touched 9 thousand the day before. Despite these figures, another 48 hours later the government decided cut the quarantine period in half mandatory for all positives. Decision that the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, motivated by explaining that “we are most contagious in the first 5 days after the appearance of symptoms or that follow the positivity of a buffer. Later the contagion it drops very sharply and after a week it remains, but very weak ”.

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