- The head of the bacteriology-hygiene department of the Nantes University Hospital believes that there is still "a big room for improvement" in terms of hygiene in places open to the public.
- With other personalities, he warns in particular about the misuse of gloves and masks.
- They have just published a list of gestures to adopt in supermarkets, markets or transport.
"It is necessary to specify the reception rules in supermarkets and in places open to the public". This is the message of a group of epidemiology experts who has just published a series of recommendations aimed at completing the barrier measures recommended by the government, with the aim of limiting the spread of the coronavirus. This “scientific support group”, in particular composed of the head of the bacteriology-hygiene department of Nantes University Hospital Didier Lepelletier and Loire-Atlantique senator Ronan Dantec, believes that there is still “a lot of room for improvement” in terms of hygiene.
"We see a disparate reception in the supermarkets," says for example the senator, a veterinarian by training. Some disinfect the shopping carts, others do not, few require their customers to wash their hands at the entrance ... "These experts also warn about the wearing of gloves at the cashiers, a bad idea according to them:" Often, they spend time 'A client to another with the same gloves, without sometimes removing them all day and therefore without washing their hands, notes Professor Lepelletier. These are sometimes counterproductive measures: in this case, gloves are a drag on hygiene. It is better to work with bare hands and wash with hydroalcoholic gel between two clients. "
"Do not put on the shelf an already handled product"
In its recommendations for supermarkets, the group of experts proposes to "organize a direction of travel in the business to avoid people crossing" and recommends to customers (who should wash their hands when leaving their homes, entering and when you go out into the store, when you arrive at their place, and after having unpacked your purchases) "not to put on the shelf an already handled product".
Measures also to be followed for the outdoor markets: if the State has supervised their organization more, the group of experts still ensures that they receive many practical questions from the town halls. He proposes for example for each stall "the installation of rigid plexiglass to protect the merchant if possible". "The drive-type device must increase in power because it considerably reduces contact between customers and also between employees and customers," they say.
Wait for the cloth masks
As the debate over masks rages on, this scientific group suggests that individuals (and non-healthcare professionals) wait for the deployment of cloth masks, which should soon be available for sale. "Already because we are still in a period of rationalization but also because like gloves, people do not know how to use them: they take them off, handle them, put them back…", believes Didier Lepelletier.
It is moreover to provide more education that this group wanted to floor and disseminate to mayors this range of measures, which also relates to public transport. "Today, we know how to take care of patients on the sheave, but the key is really mastering barrier gestures," they say. From now but also during the whole period of deconfinement. "
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