- "No country can meet the demand for masks when it is hit by the epidemic," said Olivier Véran.
- France placed for the month of April an order for "two million serology tests" in order to identify the French who have or have not had the coronavirus and "prepare the country for the phase of deconfinement".
- This Thursday, a decree published regulates the prescription of "hydroxychloroquine", and authorizes it as a "treatment of Covid-19" for patients treated in hospital. Experimentation with Professor Raoult's treatment is therefore authorized.
Three ministers on France 2 but in duplex. This Thursday evening, the France 2 show You have the floor was on the theme of confinement which has affected the country for ten days to fight against a greater spread of the coronavirus. Faced with Thomas Sotto and Léa Salamé, the government was represented by Olivier Véran, Minister of Solidarity and Health, Christophe Castaner, Minister of the Interior and Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy and Finance.
This Thursday, there were 1,696 deaths from coronavirus in France. Almost 29,000 people tested positive for Covid-19.
Here is what to take from the statements of the Minister of Health, the first to be interviewed.
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The Minister of Health has been asked several times about the too low number of masks in France currently to protect caregivers, the French from the coronavirus epidemic. "No country can meet the demand for masks when it is hit by the epidemic," said Olivier Véran. He recalled having ordered "the destocking of 36 million masks. It probably won't be enough to protect everyone. An order for 250 million masks was also placed and communities and companies were asked to return the masks they have. Another order placed for the month of April, that of "two million serology tests" to identify the French who have had the coronavirus or not and "prepare the country for the phase of deconfinement".
France is not the only one to lack materials to fight against the Covid-19 epidemic, "all the countries with which I speak encounter the same difficulties today because we are in a world tension on the material", explained the Minister of Health. Especially since a large part of this material is made in China.
Chloroquine, "no bet on the health of the French"?
The treatment recommended by Professor Didier Raoult based on chloroquine for patients affected by Covid-19 received in You have the word the support of the columnist of France 2 Laura Tenoudji, who benefited from this remedy, but also from the 'former Minister of Health Philippe Douste-Blazy.
This Thursday, a decree published regulates the prescription of "hydroxychloroquine", and authorizes it as a "treatment of Covid-19" for patients treated in hospital. If the experiment is authorized, Olivier Véran does not want to take "a bet on the health of the French" without scientific certainty on its effects. "The study involves 24 patients," he recalls.
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But if the treatment proved to be effective in treating Covid-19 patients, hydroxychloroquine could be produced quickly. "We have the raw materials," said the Minister of Health, who is discussing with laboratories about this possibility.
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