France announced Tuesday, March 24, the establishment of a committee of researchers and doctors who will be responsible for advising the executive on " backtracking " practices that identify people in contact with those infected by the coronavirus.
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This strategy, which aims to use geolocation data to try to halt the spread of the epidemic, is already implemented or in the process of being implemented in South Korea, Russia or even Israel to the chagrin of its detractors who denounce an attack on individual freedoms.
Composed of twelve researchers and doctors, the research and expertise analysis committee (CARE) will be installed at 5:00 p.m. this Tuesday at the Elysée. Chaired by Francoise Barré-Sanoussi, virologist at the Pasteur / Inserm Institute, Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of the AIDS virus, it will ensure " the monitoring of therapeutic studies authorized in France and trials undertaken on treatments abroad ", specifies the Elysee Palace in a press release.
It “will also support the authorities' reflection on the doctrine and the ability to carry out tests as well as on the advisability of implementing a digital strategy for identifying people who have been in contact with infected people ”, adds the Presidency.
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