“No, Laurence Ferrari is not a contact case !, says Gérald-Brice Viret, general manager of the channels and programs of the Canal + group, to which CNews belongs where the star interviewer officiates every day at 8.15 am, then at 5 pm hours.
She therefore does not need a period of isolation.
" Really?
Many have been asking the question since Bruno Le Maire announced Friday, September 18 in the evening on Twitter that he had been "tested positive for Covid-19".
However, the day before, the Minister of the Economy had gone on the set of the morning CNews.
In front of him, the journalist interviewed him for twenty-one minutes.
Without mask, as is customary on TV sets, or other protection.
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"Laurence Ferrari and Bruno Le Maire stayed two meters apart and wore their masks before and after the interview," says the director of Canal +.
For us, the sanitary measures were respected.
We are very careful about this.
He adds that his star presenter did a PCR test this Saturday morning, hoping to have the result by Monday.
“She is surrounded by the greatest doctors,” adds Gérald-Brice Viret.
"And then, Laurence did not shake hands with Bruno Le Maire," slips one of his relatives.
"We cannot say that the risk is zero"
The example of Laurence Ferrari could turn out to be a real textbook case.
"Having shared a confined space for at least 15 minutes" with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus, she should however be counted as a contact case, according to the recommendations of the health authorities.
And therefore, to be placed in isolation for seven days.
This is confirmed by infectious disease specialist Anne-Claude Crémieux: “Even if the risk of transmission by aerosol was low, given the distance on the CNews set, we cannot say that it is zero.
Laurence Ferrari is clearly a contact case.
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The text of Public Health France, the national public health agency, also specifies that for contact cases, a PCR test must be carried out "seven days after the last contact at risk" with an infected person, and not before this lapse. time, at the risk of distorting the result.
"You have to wait at least five days, which is the most frequent incubation period", underlines Professor Anne-Claude Crémieux.
"We must review the regulations" on TV shows
This Thursday, the whole team of the show "La Quotidienne", on France 5, who had been placed in isolation for a week.
Two days earlier, Maya Lauqué and Thomas Isle had received on stage a guest who tested positive for Covid-19 in the wake.
The next shoots scheduled for this week have therefore been canceled, before a possible restart on Monday, September 28.
For her part, Laurence Ferrari has planned to return to the air Monday morning at 8:15 am, for her traditional interview in the morning of Romain Desarbres on CNews.
Coincidentally, she will face ... a surgeon doctor.
"It is not a question of making her feel guilty, but she should at least inform her interlocutor and wear a mask", estimates Anne-Claude Crémieux.
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These cases, for the time being isolated, put on the table the question of wearing a mask (or other protection) on TV sets, which today benefit from an exception to the rule.
"With the increase in the circulation of the virus, especially in the Paris region, we must review the regulations, insists Marie-Claude Crémieux, who recently kept her mask when she was not speaking on the set of" C to you "on France 5. Otherwise, journalists will spend their time being in contact.
Why not systematize Plexiglas
(Editor's note: as is the case on the set of “Touche pas à mon poste”, on C8)
or transparent masks, which would allow us to continue reading lips?
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