The department of Bouches-du-Rhône chaired by Martine Vassal announced Thursday evening its desire to launch an experiment to allow the reopening of restaurants.
In a press release presenting the project as a hope for restaurateurs, the community announces that the health protocol for this operation has been validated by the Mediterranean IHU led by Professor Didier Raoult in Marseille.
The project consists in supporting an experiment conceived by the “Collective of the future”, bringing together restaurateurs and lawyers from Marseille in order to prove that the reopening of restaurants is possible if strictly controlled measures are established.
The protocol in question developed by Professor Eric Chabrières, also a member of the IHU, provides for physical distancing rules and cleaning of occupied surfaces.
"It intends to be part of a legal framework," said the department's statement.
The test would make it possible to monitor 15 restaurateurs daily with the participation of the Marseilles Fire Brigades ready to carry out a whole battery of samples (air, water, surfaces).
Convinced by the project, the department therefore decided to support it and Martine Vassal intends to work in close collaboration with the regional prefecture and the regional health agency.
The two authorities were asked and according to the first exchanges, the prefect himself, Christophe Mirmand would have welcomed the initiative rather favorably.
It remains to know the position of the Ministry of Health.
