The administrative court of Paris recognized the French State guilty, this Tuesday, of several shortcomings in the management of the pandemic before May 2020 from the beginnings of the first wave of Covid-19.
Seized of 34 applications questioning the responsibility of the State in the prevention and management of the initial phase of the health crisis, the court considered that the State "had committed a fault by refraining from constituting a sufficient stock of masks, prior to the emergence of Covid-19, in view of the recommendations published in the fight against a pandemic".
“In addition, he ruled that the government statements indicating, at the start of the health crisis, that it was not useful for the general population to wear a mask were at fault given their contradictory nature with the available scientific data,” the court said in a statement on Tuesday.
The court had been seized by people who had contracted Covid-19 or the beneficiaries of people who died as a result of the disease.
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