In the afternoon, she again pleaded the measure to the Ministry of Health.
So, this Tuesday evening, Claude Rambaud pushes a sigh of relief: "The President used the two keywords: isolation and support", notes the vice-president of France Assos Santé, the federation which brings together 85 user associations and of patients.
The government had hesitated for several days.
Emmanuel Macron decided during his speech: a turn of the screw will be given to the last pillar of the triptych "test, trace, isolate.
"" I want the government and Parliament to provide the conditions to ensure the isolation of people infected, including in a more restrictive way.
The challenge is to break the chains of transmission by ensuring that positive people do not infect others.
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Isolation, but in what form?
By making it compulsory in requisitioned hotels?
The measure would go very badly with the population and the logistical needs would be gigantic.
By matching it, in the event of non-compliance with a fine of up to 10,000 euros, as the deputy (Agir) of Haut-Rhin Olivier Becht wishes?
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Elsewhere in Europe, the sanction already exists.
In Italy, any violator of the quarantine measure risks a sentence of three to 18 months in prison and a fine of 500 to 5,000 euros.
In Spain, the punishment is even more dissuasive: 3,000 euros for the first violation of isolation, but up to 600,000 euros in the event of a repeat offense.
A kind of "electronic fence"
"I do not believe in coercion, for his part Claude Rambaud.
The key is to assure people who will have to isolate themselves for a few days that they will have no loss of salary and concrete help for shopping, for example.
»Concrete?
Already, many doctors are asking for the expansion and strengthening of the Covisan system, set up by hospitals in Paris.
That is to say, a network of volunteers who would come to the patient's home, offering him a test and advising him on the right way to isolate himself, according to his living conditions.
"These people will be supported on the material, health, psychological level" promised Emmanuel Macron, without further details.
Will it rely on electronic tools and high technology, as is the case in Asian countries?
For example, in Taiwan, a kind of “electronic fence” is set up around Covid patients, monitoring data from their smartphones and alerting the police when they risk leaving their homes.
"This announcement is wishful thinking"
But the first step, and not the least: build consensus.
"A real democratic debate must be held", assured the Head of State.
Already, forced isolation does not convince all experts.
According to Benjamin Davido, infectious disease specialist at Garches, "this announcement is wishful thinking, extremely difficult to implement and which will not solve the problem," he said, preferring "more encouraging" measures.
Given the state in which the sick are, he recalls, they have neither the desire nor the strength to go out and respect isolation.
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He who has just spent "three days bedridden" by the virus knows something about it.
For the doctor, the solution lies rather in the Japanese-style tracing.
“Today, when you have the Covid in France, you are asked who you have been in contact with, not who infected you.
However, this is the real issue.
We must not only look in the present, but in the past ”.
For epidemiologist Martin Blachier, this measure is not the right answer either.
"It's unnecessarily restrictive".
If according to him, the respect of this quarantine is essential to control the epidemic, to impose it is a “lure”.
It is not necessary to go that far, the epidemiologist rather recommends the establishment of a protocol for positive people.
“The most important thing is that patients do not go to public places where we are most contaminated, such as restaurants or work.
But they can still go out shopping, taking precautions.
No need to put people under house arrest!
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