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Covid-19: self-tests "everywhere", mediators, "coercive" measures ... Véran announces his plan for the summer

2021-06-25T02:05:25.682Z


The Minister of Health Olivier Véran unveils this Sunday the outlines of the device that will be deployed this summer to avoid a resurgence


The summer will "certainly be more serene", under certain conditions ... The Minister of Health Olivier Véran speaks in Le Journal du Dimanche to announce, on the eve of summer, the upcoming mechanism to continue the decline in hospitals and continue to fight against Covid-19.

The government's objective has not changed: it still consists of “testing-alerting-protecting”, but the method is evolving.

This method adapts first to some good news.

"With 2000 to 3000 cases per day, it is no longer the virus that tracks us, but we who track it", assures the Minister of Health in the columns of the JDD.

After the end of the mask outdoors and the disappearance of the curfew this Sunday, Olivier Véran claims a summer "different from the previous", enriched with "more tools" likely to help fight against the coronavirus.

Self-tests on the beaches and in the campsites

Among these tools, self-tests should feature prominently in a peaceful summer, of course, but also placed under the sign of caution.

These self-performed tests should "be distributed free of charge on beaches, campsites, hotels or sports halls," explains Le Journal du dimanche.

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Holiday resorts, precarious public, leisure centers, school closings for the summer… In total, more than 8 million self-tests will be distributed as of the next few days and for the next two months.

"We are going to distribute them throughout the country", summarizes Olivier Véran, who specifies that these tests are not intended to replace PCR and antigen tests, but to add "an additional mesh" to the device.

Mediators and contact-tracing

So that the Covid is not part of the summer landscape, Olivier Véran announces the deployment of anti-Covid mediators. The latter will be responsible for advising summer visitors on screening, isolation or vaccination. "They will be present absolutely everywhere: on vacation spots, in campsites, in colonies", assures Olivier Véran. 2,000 of them will be "capable of carrying out tests, health surveys or providing assistance in isolation at home" in reinforcement of the Health Insurance brigades.

A new method of contact tracing, “Japanese style”, will be tested “from the beginning of July”.

It consists of "a thorough investigation" to determine who infected a positive person and under what circumstances.

“This retrospective tracing (…) is much more efficient,” assures Olivier Véran.

We will go back as far as possible.

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Sniffer dogs to the rescue

Collective screening made possible through sniffer dogs will be tested “in a port” and “in an airport” over the next few days.

"We now have proof that it works in real life thanks to the very promising results obtained by the research teams and the AP-HP", argues Olivier Véran, who reports "a wider deployment during the summer" in success stories of the experiments.

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At the dawn of the summer season which officially starts on Monday, the Minister of Health announces a “more coercive” plan in the face of a “very, very contagious” Delta variant.

"If a person contaminated by the Indian variant refuses to respond to the Health Insurance teams or to respect the sheltering instructions, an alert is sent to the prefects," he indicates.

They can take isolation measures.

(…) We will not hesitate to do so, because we cannot take the risk of starting a new epidemic wave.

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Source: leparis

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