The " first effects of confinement " should be visible " at the end of next week ", hoped Saturday March 28 Arnaud Fontanet, director of the global health department at the Pasteur Institute.
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" To be able to estimate the impact of these containment measures on the main indicator, which is the number of daily cases of admissions to intensive care, we will have to wait a bit, " he said at a conference. press with the Prime Minister. " We won't be able to see them and, we hope, only at the end of next week .
He recalled the importance of combining the application of barrier gestures, social distancing (staying away from people around us) and therefore confinement to smooth the curve of the number of cases, relieve the nursing staff and allow the most severely affected patients to be managed.
