"Only the BBC did not come to see me! Jokes Philippe Chopin. Prefect of the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, he distinguished himself during confinement by vigorous management of the health crisis. " I put the army in the streets of Perpignan and I sounded the sirens. I was criticized for scaring the kids or reminding the older kids of bad memories ... But I wanted the locals to take the situation seriously ".
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Philippe Chopin was above all the first prefect in France to requisition a hotel - a Première Classe on the outskirts of Perpignan - to receive hospital patients suffering from non-serious forms of covid-19. “ The Perpignan hospital bordered on saturation. The doctors said to me: "Monsieur the prefect, we have to find a place". It was March 23. On March 26, the first patients were greeted at the hotel . ”
The hotel in Perpignan becomes a textbook case, and the idea is gaining ground elsewhere in France. The Academy
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