Coronavirus in Marseille: "Faced with Covid-19, people and mayors are organizing themselves"

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Tourists wearing masks against Covid-19 in the Old Port, in Marseille, August 26, 2020. Christophe SIMON / AFP

By: Clémentine Pawlotsky

The Minister of Health Olivier Véran is traveling, Thursday, August 27, to Marseille to discuss the worsening health situation. For their part, the mayor of Marseille Michèle Rubirola and Martine Vassal, the president of the metropolis and of the departmental council of Bouches-du-Rhône presented in the morning, during a press conference, "new joint actions to fight against Covid-19 ”at the IHU Méditerranée Infection in the presence of Professor Didier Raoult. Analysis by Virginie Martin, political scientist and professor-researcher at KEDGE Business School.

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