"We really have the impression that we are in another world, they look like archive images", wonders Professor Philippe Amouyel, professor of public health at the University Hospital of Lille, viewing the images of the mass in Easter held last Saturday at the Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile church in Paris (9th, revealed by "Le Parisien". "Outbreaks (epidemiological) could be triggered extremely easily as no instructions health has not been respected ", continues the doctor. On these images which he discovers, one can see many faithful gathered often without mask, without social distancing. The priest himself officiates without mask and gives the host of the hand directly in the mouth of the communicants. "Even if a church is wide open, it remains a closed environment", explains Philippe Amouyel. "We also see a baptism session where the water does not seem to be changed from one baptized to the other ”, he comments, astonished, as the im
ages scroll across his screen.
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Priests and faithful without masks or social distancing during a mass celebrated in Paris
The specialist specifies that speaking and singing in a closed environment, such as during masses, "are major transmission vectors of the virus, especially since today we live with the British variant, which is much more contagious".
The professor recalls that the virus is transmitted mainly by the droplets which escape from our mouth while speaking and by aerosols: "this kind of small mist that one can find on a cold window when speaking".
"This kind of scenes are totally scandalous when we know all the sacrifices that all French people must make now to get out of this epidemic", reacts Philippe Amouyel.
"It's totally amazing," concludes the professor of public health.