Fourteen French and foreign caregivers are appointed posthumously to the rank of knight of the Legion of Honor, according to a decree published on Friday in the Official Journal, the day after the announcement of new restrictions to try to stem the Covid epidemic. 19.
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Among the 12 French caregivers, general practitioners and managers, caregivers or agents in hospitals.
The two foreign caregivers, of Portuguese and Congolese nationality, were a specialist worker in a hospital center and a nursing assistant in an nursing home.
On January 1, an exceptional promotion of the Legion of Honor and the National Order of Merit had rewarded hundreds of people committed for months against the Covid-19.
The inhabitants of 16 departments will be re-confined on Friday at midnight for at least a month, with travel restrictions but open schools, a decision imposed in the face of the outbreak of the epidemic but vilified by the oppositions and traders.
