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The Covid-19 pandemic in the France dossierBy unilaterally imposing health measures on travelers from China – which are also ineffective – the head of state frees himself from the European coordination that he nevertheless calls for.
Three years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, are we witnessing the return of panic, disorderly border closures, headless national measures? Since the Chinese government’s abrupt departure from the “zero Covid” policy on December 7, which proved its utter futility, the foreseeable explosion in the number of cases and deaths has unleashed a wave of fear reminiscent of the beginnings of the pandemic . As if the states had learned absolutely nothing from the past few years.
France, after Italy and Spain, decided on Friday to require travelers arriving from China to have a negative PCR test within 48 hours and to wear a surgical mask during the flight from Sunday, and to reintroduce random checks on arrival . This unilateral decision by Emmanuel Macron is obviously in complete contradiction to the “Europe of health” he is calling for.