Individual responsibility.
SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou called on travelers on Wednesday to wear the mask again in stations and trains, in the face of the rebound in the Covid-19 epidemic, even if it is not compulsory.
“We are completely in line with a strong recommendation, both for our staff and for travelers, to wear the mask”, he declared on France Inter.
.@JPFarandou, CEO of the SNCF: "We see that there is a rebound in the Covid epidemic. We must protect our staff, our passengers. We are in line with a strong recommendation to wear the mask in stations and trains.
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– France Inter (@franceinter) June 29, 2022
“We can clearly see that there is a rebound in the epidemic (…) Wearing a mask in stations, wearing a mask on trains, I think that is the best way to protect yourself”, he said. he adds.
"We must protect our staff, we must protect our travelers," said the CEO.
“There is no obligation,” acknowledged Mr. Farandou.
“We appeal to people's civic sense.
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The mask is no longer compulsory in public transport since May 16, but Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne asked the prefects and health authorities on Tuesday to encourage the wearing of the mask “in places of promiscuity” and “enclosed spaces”, especially “public transport”.
“Trust in the collective responsibility of the French people”
These “recommendations”, without “mandatory nature”, come as the incidence rate of the Covid-19 epidemic “has doubled in one week on almost all of the metropolitan territory and in all classes of age of the population”, according to Matignon.
Olivia Grégoire (@oliviagregoire) on the outbreak of Covid cases: "We trust the responsibility of the French" pic.twitter.com/LFRSUcmoc5
– BFMTV (@BFMTV) June 29, 2022
A speech also repeated this Wednesday morning by Olivia Grégoire, the government spokesperson, while the number of new cases identified in 24 hours exploded to nearly 150,000. "We will trust the collective responsibility of the French", notably assured the spokesperson for the new government on BFMTV.
“We had a lot of French people tired and tired of obligations,” she also recalled before calling on the most fragile to go and get vaccinated against Covid-19.
A few weeks before the summer holidays, and in this context of an outbreak of the virus, the authorities fear family reunions between the youngest and the oldest.