At the microphone of Europe 1, Nicolas Revel, director general of the National Health Insurance Fund, returned to the deconfinement strategy in France. Asked about the device for tracking and identifying people affected by the Covid-19, he wanted to be reassuring, saying that there is no risk of breach of medical confidentiality. 

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How will the tracing of sick people with coronavirus work from May 11, the date of the start of deconfinement? On the night of Friday to Saturday, the deputies adopted at first reading the bill extending the state of health emergency until July 10, which frames the device of the "health brigades". Guest of the midday day newspaper of Europe 1 Saturday, Nicolas Revel, director general of the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM), whose agents will be mobilized, explained that there was no risk breach of medical confidentiality. "Medical secrecy, we have managed it for 70 years", he declared, affirming that only "patients, their doctors and the Health Insurance" will be aware of sensitive data within the framework of the "health brigades" system. .  

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