Doctors, scientists, laboratory managers, etc. Thirty researchers involved in the fight against the coronavirus are invited to the Elysée Palace on Thursday afternoon. The Ministers of Health Olivier Véran and of Research Frédérique Vidal will be present.
The objective of this meeting around Emmanuel Macron is "to make a collective point on the inventory of the virus and solutions" to face the crisis, said the Elysee. It is also a question of encouraging "cooperation between all the actors, whether public or private" and "checking the fluidity of relations between them so that solutions are brought in as soon as possible", he said. he adds.
An upset presidential agenda
The leaders, including Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, of the REACTing network were invited, a multidisciplinary partnership on infectious diseases and the fight against epidemics, created in 2016 by Inserm with the Pasteur Institute, the CNRS and the IRD. In January, he was given the task of coordinating information on the virus.
Also present will be officials from the National Research Agency, as well as directors from four private laboratories: BioMérieux, which is developing diagnostic tests, ABBVIE, which has produced a treatment for SARS, Gilead, who is working on a project. treatment, as well as Sanofi, which is developing a vaccine.
Emmanuel Macron changed his agenda this week to "fully focus on monitoring the management of the coronavirus crisis," the presidency said on Monday. He went on Tuesday to the Operational Center for Regulation and Response to Health and Social Emergencies (CORRUSS) of the Ministry of Health, to greet his agents and take stock of the situation. France has "entered a phase that will last weeks and probably months" to fight against the coronavirus, he then warned, adding that "the mobilization of the whole country" was "absolutely decisive".
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