Eight cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed in the National Assembly in recent days.

These people were tested at the Palais Bourbon medical office, where wearing a mask and barrier gestures are widespread. 

Eight cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed in the National Assembly in recent days, among the deputies, collaborators or staff of the institution, we learned Friday from parliamentary sources.

These people were tested at the Palais Bourbon medical office, where wearing a mask and barrier gestures are widespread.

The coronavirus epidemic did not spare the National Assembly in the spring, with some parliamentarians seriously affected and sessions that had only resumed gradually.

Video meetings and auditions have multiplied and have continued in some cases since the start of the school year.

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For this extraordinary session in September, the sessions in the hemicycle restarted last Tuesday.

Previously, the political groups had mostly held parliamentary days in various parts of the territory, including LREM near Amiens.

A warning message was sent to the colleagues of a member of Parliament who went to this meeting and was positive.

Members of Parliament voluntarily remain in constituencies

Some deputies voluntarily remain in constituencies.

Employees telework, but only a tiny minority (1.4%), according to a survey commissioned by the inter-union of employees.

Some 38% stay in person at the Assembly, and 11% combine the two.

These 200 employees surveyed consider the level of information and security to be high (7/10 on average) but deplore a lack of communication on contact cases - while the Assembly invokes medical confidentiality.

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A working group chaired by Sylvain Waserman (MoDem) worked between May and July on "the operating mode of parliamentary work in times of crisis", in anticipation of a possible second wave of the epidemic but also other types. disturbance.

Remote voting on certain texts has been recommended in particular.