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Coronavirus: a swimming pool in the North transformed into a “decontamination airlock”

2020-04-02T13:39:55.643Z


In order not to return home "the ball in the belly", for fear of contaminating their own, professionals in contact with the sick can


Do not endanger your loved ones and go to work without contaminated clothing. The Denain swimming pool (North) reopened its doors this week "to caregivers, hospitals and professionals in contact with the Covid-19", in order to "allow them to wash before going home", according to Mayor Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini.

"More and more cases of Covid-19 are suspected or proven in the hospital and in town, [and] several caregivers have reported to me in recent days that they had a lump in their stomachs when they got home", explained the mayor. They are indeed "forced to undress in the garage or the entrance and then run to shower to avoid contaminating their loved ones," she added.

The city therefore decided to reopen part of the pool on Monday - closed since the start of confinement - "and to make the showers, changing rooms and lockers available to all carers, hospital or rescue staff, or other professionals" risking d 'being in contact with the virus at their workplace,' continued Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini, confirming information from France 3 Hauts-de-France.

Two circuits: clean and dirty

Open "7 days a week" from 7 am to 8 pm, the swimming pool has been "divided into two circuits", called "clean" and "dirty". On the one hand, professionals who start their day can "put on their work clothes and put their proper attire in the locker room, in a locker".

On the other, those who return from work and therefore from a potentially contaminated area "remove their shoes, go through the footbath, then undress and put their outfit in a garbage bag" before "washing and recovering their civilian clothes “, Detailed the city councilor. Antiseptic soap is also "made available".

Well-protected cleaning ladies follow one another

The pool staff take turns in several shifts all week, and a cleaning lady "is always present and equipped with the necessary protective equipment," she added.

The measure concerns "all those who have to work and believe they have been in contact with the virus". The national police are also interested.

Source: leparis

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