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Heat wave plan: in Paris, refreshed rooms adapted to sanitary measures

2020-08-06T17:52:26.130Z


The refreshed rooms set up in the Parisian district town halls are adapted to sanitary measures.The thermometer of the Archives pharmacy, in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, displays 35 degrees this Thursday afternoon. “ It's unbreathable, inside and out, ” mutters Françoise, a resident of the neighborhood of “ almost 80 years ”, behind her mask. However, a little further in the street, in the Sophie Germain room of the old town hall of the district, it is almost 10 degrees cooler. The pl...


The thermometer of the Archives pharmacy, in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, displays 35 degrees this Thursday afternoon. It's unbreathable, inside and out, ” mutters Françoise, a resident of the neighborhood of “ almost 80 years ”, behind her mask. However, a little further in the street, in the Sophie Germain room of the old town hall of the district, it is almost 10 degrees cooler. The place, open this Thursday at noon sharp, has been fitted out to become one of the “refreshed rooms” made available to the inhabitants of each Parisian arrondissement as part of phase 3 of the heat wave plan activated this Thursday, while respecting the health rules of social distancing.

Masks compulsory and ventilators prohibited

Patrice is a logistics agent in the old town hall of the district. It was he who was responsible for the layout of the room, usually used for snacks and receptions. We already had a small air conditioner, and we drilled a hole for the air evacuation, separated the tables a little and put up posters with the measures to be observed in the cooled room. Apart from that, we didn't have to do anything in particular for the covid ”. One of these posters, yellow and white, is plastered on the window of the reception of the town hall. Among the measures to be observed in the cooled room, we read there: wear a mask during the entire occupation of the room, wash your hands when entering it, and keep away from the air conditioning, in order to avoid the spread of droplets that could carry the virus. I was also asked to leave the door a little ajar when the room is occupied, to allow the air to circulate ,” adds Patrice. The compatibility of the room with health measures was checked last Friday by a management team from Democracy, Citizens and Territories, one of the organs of the town hall of Paris. " The use of the fan has for example been prohibited in all rooms, since more than one person is there, and the maximum number of people who can be accommodated in the room is usually halved ", specifies Pierre Monquet, Véronique Levieux's chief of staff, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of Seniors and solidarity between generations.

Tables were separated to enforce social distancing rules in the refreshed room. Photo Le Figaro Claire-Line Nass

The refreshed room of Paris Center, an entity bringing together the first four Parisian arrondissements and located in the Sophie Germain room, is part of a network of 16 rooms set up in the city halls of the capital's arrondissements. Only the 5th and 7th arrondissements do not have their own refreshed hall, and Paris Center has two, according to Pierre Monquet. These rooms are open " in priority to all beneficiaries of the REFLEX device, which operates on the voluntary registration of vulnerable people and brings together around 10,000 Parisians ", he adds. But it's also open to everyone, if there is room! », Specifies Théo Firzé, administrative assistant at the town hall of the fourth arrondissement, installed in his chair and behind his window at the reception of the town hall.

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But for the moment, the refreshed hall of the town hall of the fourth arrondissement has not yet welcomed any visitors. I think people are afraid of going out with covid. And then, as the town hall of the fourth is closed for administrative services, the inhabitants may not know that the room is open, ”explains Théo Firzé. However, last year, we had a good fifteen regular visitors ,” adds Patrice, the logistics agent. To fill the refreshed room of the old town hall of the fourth arrondissement, a communication campaign was therefore launched by the town hall of Paris Center, by dint of publications on social networks and on the website of the town hall of the arrondissement, and especially through information transmitted through calls made within the framework of the REFLEX program to vulnerable inhabitants.

Source: lefigaro

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