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Vaccination and masks in the face of the triple epidemic, urges Elisabeth Borne

2022-12-20T17:23:46.124Z


The Prime Minister assured that all French people had a “role to play” in helping healthcare personnel, in particular thanks to barrier gestures.


Elisabeth Borne renewed on Tuesday December 20 before the end of the year celebrations her call for vaccination and the wearing of a mask in the face of the triple Covid-flu-bronchiolitis epidemic, which makes the situation particularly

“tense”

in hospitals.

We are facing a difficult situation.

And with the holidays, this situation is even more tense

" in the face of three "

overlapping

" epidemics, of bronchiolitis, Covid and influenza, "

which is particularly hard this year

", recalled the Prime Minister after taking part in a steering meeting of the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency.

All of this puts very strong pressure on our health system, on our health establishments, on all health professionals who, once again, find themselves on the front line facing a much larger than usual influx of people in the emergency room and on calls to the Samu

”, which are up by 20 to 30%, underlined Élisabeth Borne, expressing the government’s “

support

” and “

solidarity

” to the nursing staff.

“We all have a role to play”

In "

responsibility

", "

to help these caregivers, we all have a role to play

" with barrier gestures, she continued, inviting people to wear the mask "

as soon as we are in an enclosed space where we are numerous

”, and to be vaccinated against the flu and the Covid, while “

we have to meet up with the family

” for the holidays.

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At his side, the Minister of Health was "

delighted, with regard to city medicine, that the main doctors' unions did not call a strike between Christmas and New Year

".

François Braun was to hold a meeting by videoconference this Tuesday at the start of the evening on the “

mobilization of health actors during the end-of-year holiday period

” with the national representatives of the professionals concerned, his entourage told AFP.

Asked about the possibility of triggering

"white plans"

to recall staff to hospitals, the Prime Minister specified that during this meeting at the ARS, everyone was "

aware (...) of the fact that caregivers also needed to rest

" and that "

it is really within each establishment that the situation must be assessed

".

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Faced with this triple epidemic, the Committee for monitoring and anticipating health risks (Covars) recommended on Monday

to “amplify as quickly as possible” 

barrier gestures and vaccination, without speaking out for or against an obligation to wear of the mask in closed places.

Source: lefigaro

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