Since the first round of municipal elections, fear has won them over. "What if they had been infected?" , wonder more and more assessors, among the hundreds of thousands who held polling stations across France on March 15. Several cases have been identified. In Billom (Puy-de-Dôme), the mayor, Jean-Michel Charlat, announced to AFP that a 62-year-old woman is hospitalized at the University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand. Tested positive, doctors cannot assure that its contamination goes back to polling day. But it was able to contaminate voters.
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In Châtillon-sur-Loire (Loiret), the mayor, Emmanuel Rat, is in a worrying state. His symptoms appeared the day after the first round, during which he held a polling station and participated in the counting. Without forgetting all these contaminated candidates and elected officials, notably in Marseille (Martine Vassal, Yvon Berland, Valérie Boyer…) who were on deck on polling day. "We may wash our hands but when you come across
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