A Swiss to assess the crisis management of the French government. Emmanuel Macron installed the executive assessment mission on the management of the coronavirus crisis on Thursday, which will be chaired by the Swiss professor Didier Pittet and will have to give his conclusions by the end of the year, announced l 'Elysium.
This “independent national mission on the evaluation of the management of the Covid-19 crisis and on the anticipation of pandemic risks” should make it possible to “learn the lessons” from the crisis and “to come out of it strengthened and better prepared for the future, "according to his roadmap.
"Having access to transparent information"
Among the five members who make it up is therefore Professor Pittet, received by Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, infectious disease doctor and epidemiologist, 63 years old and based in Switzerland where he works at the university hospitals of Geneva and at the World Health Organization. The mission also includes Raoul Briet, former President of the Court of Auditors, Laurence Boone, Chief Economist of the OECD, Anne-Marie Moulin, Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS and Pierre Parneix, Public Health Doctor at the CHU de Bordeaux .
For them, it is a question of allowing "each French person to have access to transparent, complete and lucid information which recalls the facts, puts them in perspective and draws up proposals to strengthen our system of response to epidemics", underlines the letter. signed by the Head of State.
Comparison with neighboring countries
The five members, who will "compare the French response" to that implemented in our neighbors ", will" assess the relevance, speed, proportionality of the response in managing the health, social and economic crisis ", While the executive faces criticism, especially on its stocks of masks and resuscitation drugs.
A first progress report, "devoted to the analysis of crisis management and the preparation of a possible second wave" is expected in October 2020. Then, "at the latest by the end of 2020 ", A second report must examine" the anticipation of the pandemic risk "which could again hit France.
This mission has been criticized by the opposition, who consider that it risks obstructing the work of the National Assembly's investigation committee under way.
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