"I'm going to invite you to disinfect your hands and make you take the temperature": in a friendly but firm voice, the security agent at a Carrefour market in Cannes directs each client to an employee who points to his temple a laser thermometer.
The scene, since the installation of the device a week ago, has been reproduced in around twenty food businesses in the Cité des Festivals. And from 38 ° C, the visitor must turn around. "It is primarily a health measure to protect employees, the image of the store and its customers," said Mayor LR David Lisnard. "We must avoid making these closed places, hotbeds of contamination," he pleads.
Alternative solutions for repressed customers
In case of fever, "the store provides a list of doctors that the repressed person will be able to consult, and he is offered to deliver his shopping, either by the store itself if it is able to do so, or via the Allo Courses municipal service, ”says the elected official.
In the queue of the Carrefour market, some customers still express their doubts. "There was a flu epidemic not long ago, having a fever does not necessarily mean that you have the coronavirus," says a young woman. Especially since "fever is absent in more than 60% of symptomatic Covid patients", notes the head of the infectious diseases department of the Nice University Hospital, interviewed by Nice-Matin. Dr. Véronique Mondain sees this initiative as a “display measure”.
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