"The start of the school year will not be normal," warned the president of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, Thursday evening, while France records a sharp increase in calls to SOS Doctors for suspicion of Covid-19. “The start of the school year will be as normal as possible but not entirely normal. We will still be in this Covid atmosphere , ”he said at the microphone of BFMTV. According to the doctor, 500 new cases of coronavirus are diagnosed per day in France, "probably half the reality," he said, citing a lack of tests.
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"Social distancing and barrier measures are vanishing," also deplored the expert. But the French "will not want to relive" a general confinement, he estimated. "Let’s be careful that there is no return of the virus in the summer months" , warned the scientist, while affirming that from now on France is capable of detecting “clusters”, isolating them and tracing contact cases. “Our future is in our hands. We are our own doctors. The more we take the measures of distance, the more the re-entry will be normal ” , he hammered.
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Asked about the possibility of a new border closure, the immunologist certified that "the question is on the table" . "It arises," he added, proposing to screen binationals on their arrival or departure from French territory.
Addressing the issue of Mayenne, where several clusters have been detected, Jean-François Delfraissy said he approved the strategy of the 300,000 tests planned in the area. But, "we have to see how it will be accepted by the population, because it will not be compulsory," he tempered.