Aurélien Fleurot, edited by Gauthier Delomez 7:36 p.m., January 04, 2022

To avoid a paralysis of the economy due to the health crisis, the executive relaxed the isolation rules for positive people and vaccinated contact cases.

However, many sectors of activity are starting to be disrupted by a strong absenteeism due to contamination with Covid-19. 

Are these the beginnings of the "disorganization of society" mentioned by the Scientific Council?

With the strong spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, many industries are already being severely affected.

Despite the relaxation of the isolation rules wanted by the government, which wants to avoid paralysis of the economy, the explosion of contaminations raises fears of record absenteeism at work.

Personal services, small businesses ...

"We had a number of very specific examples of companies in which we had difficulties," explains Jean-Eudes du Mesnil, secretary general of the Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME). "In personal services in particular, in commerce and small businesses, we have the same problem. In the cleaning sector, we have had a lot of lifts, in the building sector too. This cuts across all sectors of the industry. 'activity today, "he said at the microphone of Europe 1.

To avoid this, the isolation rules are however lightened for positive people and contact cases when they are vaccinated.

Absenteeism already affects many sectors, as does the transport sector.

There are not very strong disturbances either, but all the same, dozens of TGVs have been canceled in Normandy, Brittany, Hauts-de-France or even New Aquitaine.

In the Île-de-France region, absences have increased by 6% in recent days.