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It will be done gradually, in mid-May we can start to reopen a number of places: there will be no big reopening evening,
" the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, warned on Sunday. temper the hopes of traders who could expect a resumption with fanfare in their activity.
For several months now, certain sectors (hotels, restaurants) have been at a standstill, as have “
non-essential
” businesses since the beginning of April.
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Invited to the microphone of RTL this Monday morning, the president of Medef takes note: “
we are not expecting a big evening, he
explains,
but at least an early morning.
"After more than a year during which the activity was stopped and then relaunched in spurts,"
everything is better than closure
"for companies, according to Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux.
A gradual recovery
"
Companies have implemented protocols which must be taken into account,
" further argues the president of Medef. The employers have, in recent weeks, done their best to reassure the ability of businesses to reopen without danger to health. Last week, the president of the employers' organization went to the showroom of the BeLifeLine company to test its inflatable disinfection tunnel with a UVC radiation purifying device, supposed to eliminate the coronavirus. “
You have to be prepared to live with this virus for a while. We must reopen in a certain way whatever the cost because activity is always better than non-activity,
”said Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux on this occasion.
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It appears, over the course of scientific studies, that businesses do not represent a place of over-contamination compared to other establishments such as restaurants and bars, where the wearing of masks is not continuous and where customers generally stay. Longer.
“
We must prepare for the recovery sector by sector,
advises Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux,
even if we all want to meet in a restaurant.
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