France officially entered containment on Tuesday March 17 at noon. The balance sheet of the epidemic was then nearly 7000 sick and more than 150 dead. Italy had preceded us by a week by taking similar measures on March 10, when the human toll was already 631 dead for more than 10,000 patients.
Seeing the disease spread across the Alps, should we have barricaded ourselves earlier? No scientist interviewed by Le Figaro wanted to comment on this question. "When we return to confinement we have no idea of the effectiveness of Italian measures," says Jean-Stéphane Dhersin, deputy scientific director of the National Institute of Mathematical Sciences and their interactions (University of Paris 13). In view of the incubation period of Covid-19, the effectiveness of containment can only be judged at least two weeks later. The only certainty is that it contributes to slowing the spread of the virus. The declared goal is
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