Liberal doctors call for a widening of the curfew and a weekend lockdown

Doctors from the Regional Union of Liberal Health Professionals (URPS) of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region are calling for an enlargement of the curfew and confinement of the population on weekends, considering that "the situation is serious and the time is no longer for half measures "in the face of the coronavirus epidemic. 

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"The immediate extension of curfew hours from 7 p.m. on weekdays and the establishment of confinement on Saturdays and Sundays are necessary", they underline in a press release, bringing closer the "half-measures of the curfew. current fire "to the" funny war of 1939-40 ".

"The epidemic has reached a record level which in a few days will find its translation into a congestion, even a saturation of hospital services [...]. If nothing stops the progression of the epidemic, the disaster will be human, then economic then social, ”they lament.

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They believe that to avoid a situation "comparable to that of the Grand-Est, or even Italy last spring" and "pending an effective and perfectly tolerated vaccine", it is necessary to combine "the effort of the entire population "to the one asked caregivers" to reorganize their work and increase their availability ".

"Too many of our fellow citizens do not take the risk of contagion seriously enough, individually trivialize this infection, neglect the risk they pose to others and first and foremost to the most vulnerable", they further emphasize.