Faced with the hot weather, Olivier Véran called not to give up in the fight against the coronavirus. Visiting the Dordogne on Friday, the Minister of Health called on the French to "hold on", faced with the pandemic whose figures are increasing, in France and in the world.
"France is holding on, the French must hold on", said the minister on the first day of an expected heat wave, in response to a question on the difficulty, for companies in particular, of enforcing sanitary measures, port of the mask in particular, in the heat. According to the minister, who was visiting an Ehpad in Thiviers, “we are going to exceed 600,000 tests per week. Each week, we perform 100,000 more tests than the week before. But that is not enough to explain why the numbers are increasing ”.
A toll-free number for hot weather
According to a weekly report published Thursday, the number of people diagnosed positive for the new coronavirus in France has increased by more than 30% in one week, faster than the increase in the number of tests carried out. "Everywhere you have to be vigilant," added the minister, "in the workplace, in nursing homes, in family reunions, in party circles, in restaurants or on the beach".
And as for the wearing of the mask in the streets, more and more prescribed in the municipalities, "the suspected risk of aerosol transmission (...) justifies taking all possible means to fight against the virus", he said, "We follow the recommendations of the WHO".
The minister, who had made the trip expressly to an nursing home to evoke the expected "very significant" heat wave, recalled the measures to be taken in the event of high temperatures and heatwaves, "seek freshness at all costs", drink water, eat, "avoid strenuous activity". He recalled the opening of a toll-free number - 0800.06.66.66 - that we can reach "to have all the answers to the questions that we can ask ourselves".
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