Paris, December 4 (Prensa Latina) The French Minister of Health, François Braun, today examined the possibility of returning to the mandatory use of the mask in the face of a new wave of infections caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 caused by Covid-19.
If the increase in cases continues, my arm will not tremble at the decision, even under all circumstances, said the official, in a complex scenario on French soil, based on the impact of the so-called triple epidemic: the outbreak of Covid-19. the unprecedented onslaught in the past decade of bronchiolitis and seasonal flu.
In statements to TV broadcaster BFM, the headline insisted on the prevailing tense situation and also that the need to return to mandatory mask use had not yet materialised.
We monitor the prospects daily and decisions will depend on how they develop, he said.
The number of those infected rose to around or over 60,000 on Thursday and Friday in late November after weeks of retreat from the pandemic, days when the number of hospitalizations also increased.
According to statistics from Public Health France, almost 20,000 people are hospitalized for Covid-19, 1,113 of them in intensive care.
In an interview published this Sunday by the weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, the President of the Committee for Surveillance and Anticipation of Health Risks, Brigitte Autran, advocated the use of masks indoors.
The expert regretted that not many French people opt for the booster vaccination against Covid-19 and protect themselves immunologically against the flu.
It is urgent that people protect themselves, he said.
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