Detect, trace, isolate.
To date, it is the third axis of the government's health strategy in the face of the coronavirus that raises questions.
While the Hexagon recorded nearly 40,000 new positive cases on Sunday, how to verify that all these patients, even asymptomatic, these contact cases and all those awaiting a test or its results are protecting themselves well from their peers, in order to to prevent them from spreading the virus?
Certain sprains have indeed been observed.
Sunday, at the microphone of France Inter, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran mentioned clusters in companies caused by "some people (who) although they know they are positive, but asymptomatic, had chosen to return to work anyway" .
The Scientific Council was concerned about it on September 3, in a note in which it deplored "the lack of precise data available on the conditions and monitoring of the isolation of cases".
He then did not recommend coercive measures but only incentives, particularly financial ones, with cancellation of the waiting period and compensation premiums.
Since then, the deputies of the Agir ensemble group have proposed to "make self-isolation a legal obligation", any breach of which "would be punishable by a fine of 10,000 euros", with random checks carried out at home.
Olivier Véran brushed off the idea on Sunday, claiming that the introduction of sanctions "justifies a democratic debate".
And the minister observed that "the countries which have implemented sanctioning measures for those who did not respect isolation when they were sick are facing the same wave as us".
In Italy, up to 5,000 euros fine
The French parliamentarians' proposal is effectively modeled on those that can be found in several European countries, where, beyond the measures imposed on travelers, the violation of quarantine involves different levels of sanction.
In Italy, any violator of this quarantine obligation risks a sentence of three to 18 months in prison, as well as a fine of 500 to 5,000 euros, recalls the newspaper Corriere della Sera, specifying that these measures have been extended until until January 31st.
The Veneto region has, since July, introduced a fine of 1000 euros and also applies this sanction to the patient's employer, who will have to pay this amount as soon as one of his colleagues has been exposed to the virus.
The RTBF also reveals that in Belgium, the Walloon Health Code made quarantine mandatory in July, and threatens a fine of 500 euros, or imprisonment which can range from six days to eight months. .
Depending on the region, the penalties vary between a fine of 4,000 euros and three months in prison.
500,000 in Spain if the patient went to a party
In the event of a repeat violation of isolation, the Spaniards incur a fine of up to 600,000 euros.
This amount is reduced to 3000 euros, if the person is in violation for the first time and has not come into contact with anyone.
The sum can also reach 500,000 euros if the patient has attended a large-scale event or if he has found himself with vulnerable people.
In the UK, only England has decided to take enforcement action.
It has considered quarantine since September as a legal obligation and any sprain can lead to a fine of 1,000 to 10,000 pounds in case of repetition.
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Greece, finally, goes even further: by voluntarily breaking his quarantine, but without causing contamination, a resident risks five years in prison.
Ten years, if at least one person has been infected, and 10 to 15 years in prison if this transmission results in death.
If several deaths are to be deplored, it is a sentence of life imprisonment which is incurred, according to the Greek Penal Code.