The announcements of alleviation of containment, announced by Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday evening, respect a very precise timetable and always the same objective: to reduce the contaminations to 5,000 per day.

The epidemiologist, specialist in hand hygiene and infection control, Didier Pittet, was Patrick Cohen's guest on Europe 1 to decipher this figure.

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The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced on Tuesday evening a timetable with objectives to carry out a gradual deconfinement while retaining measures against Covid-19.

The epidemiologist, head of the infection prevention and control service at Geneva university hospitals, Didier Pittet reacted to these announcements, at the microphone of Patrick Cohen on Europe 1.

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For him, the containment reductions are "cautious", "targeted" and "are done in stages".

"I believe that it is an approach which is very intelligent and which has all its direction vis-à-vis the epidemiological situation which one knows", he judged.

Doctor Didier Pittet also thinks that it will be possible to go under the bar of 5,000 daily contaminations, the objective stated by Emmanuel Macron since the start of confinement. 

"Being able to both understand and interrupt these clusters"

He also explained this choice of 5,000 contaminations per day.

"The objective is 5,000, but it could have been 6,000 or 4,000, the question is not there. The idea is to know that from the moment you reach a certain objective, you can resume recognition. chains of transmission. We must be able to both understand and interrupt these clusters. Reaching a reasonable threshold is a way of not wasting time, without stopping, on the advance of the epidemic ", he added. He specifies. 

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The one who is also the co-inventor of the hydroalcoholic gel recalls that individual behavior is very important in the fight against the epidemic.

“Basically, it's all about responsibilities and individual and personal accountability for a collective good. We must respect barrier gestures, hand hygiene, physical distancing and wearing a mask when it is indicated and from the moment where we have the slightest symptom to be able to have access to a test ".