THE QUESTION. Since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, it has been a fear that has come up regularly. Banknotes would be dangerous: currency exchanges would help spread the coronavirus. China has gone so far as to disinfect used banknotes with ultraviolet rays, or at high temperature, and put them under seal for 14 days. At the beginning of March, the World Health Organization advised to favor contactless payment. Following these recommendations, the European Banking Authority (EBA) last week asked the authorities responsible for payment services in each of the 27 countries of the Union to facilitate this type of payment.
Without neglecting this concern, the Governor of the Bank of France, François Villeroy de Galhau, wanted to be reassuring this Wednesday morning at the microphone of Europe 1. “ The Bank of France looked with the other central banks and there is has no sign that the banknotes are particularly
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