According to Arnaud Fontanet, the tests were not sufficient to prevent the containment. Wearing a mask or a culture of hand hygiene were also necessary. Even i
According to Arnaud Fontanet, the tests were not sufficient to prevent the containment. Wearing a mask or a culture of hand hygiene were also necessary.
Even if France had been able to perform more screening tests for the coronavirus at the beginning of march, this would not have avoided the need for a containment widespread, said Thursday a member of the scientific Council, Arnaud Fontanet, in the national Assembly.
The only countries that have “managed to control” the epidemic, “without confinement” have done “thanks to a whole series of measures” and “not just the tests,” said the epidemiologist before the commission of inquiry of the national Assembly on the management of the crisis of the sars coronavirus. She could hear in his quality of member of the scientific council, at the side of the president of the group of experts responsible for advising the government during the epidemic, Jean-François Delfraissy, and the other two members.`
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The subject countries, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore, have also implemented a tracing very active people that have been in contact with the sick, with significant “monitoring computer”, and have the benefit of a “culture of wearing a mask” and “hand hygiene”, was listed Arnaud Fontanet.
“We had no choice”
in Spite of this, these countries remain today in a “extreme tension” to prevent a resumption of the epidemic of Covid-19, a-t-he stressed. In France, “on the date when the decision was made, we had no choice,” he added, observing that even the european countries where the situation was better controlled had opted for a containment, with the exception of Sweden.
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He was responding to a question by mp Eric Ciotti (LR) the subject of the comment of Jean-François Delfraissy in an interview in the Sunday Newspaper of June 7, according to which the confinement “was not a good decision, but the least bad, given the tools that we had : 3000 ?tests per day, when the Germans had more than 50 000”.
“supply Problems”
“It was asked that there be no more tests” but “you need to see the reality of what we had the ability to do so,” observed his side Jean-François Delfraissy, considering that even with a screening strategy for a more active “in any way, we would have had the pandemic in France”.
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The virologist Bruno Lina, also a member of the scientific council, for its part, considered that the inability to perform more tests was related to difficulties of supply in a context of rising global demand, rather than by latency or a bad organization of the French laboratories.
Date Of Update: 18 June 2020, 18:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn