If there is "a scientific consensus" on the interest of this measure in the face of the coronavirus, the government will take the decision to extend the wearing of protective masks to the entire population, said his spokesman, Sibeth Ndiaye, this Thursday on Franceinfo, stressing that this is not currently the case.
"We will make a decision for the possible extension of the wearing of the mask throughout the population as soon as we can build it on a scientific consensus, a scientific and health rational," she said.
A measure envisaged for the removal of containment
"There is no scientific consensus today on the matter," she hammered, stressing that the World Health Organization (WHO) "does not recommend the use of the mask in the population so general ”. "As we reflect on the strategies we will implement when it comes to lifting the containment, this is one of the options we are considering," said the spokesperson.
The government is very criticized on the management of masks, which several mayors of big cities have already imposed the wearing by all in their commune or are preparing to do so. "The crisis is not behind us," "we are still at the heart of this epidemic," said Sibeth Ndiaye, refusing to anticipate the decisions that President Emmanuel Macron could announce on Monday during his television intervention.
Soon 50,000 screening tests per day
France's ability to carry out screening tests "has greatly increased", she also stressed. "In terms of tests that detect the disease, PCR tests, we have greatly increased our capacity to test (…) Last week we performed 22,000 tests per day", "we will further increase this capacity to arrive to 50,000 tests a day, "she said.
Asked about the digital tracking of residents to limit the spread of the virus, she stressed that the government was "in an exploratory phase" on the subject. "The application that we are considering can only be on a voluntary basis, an anonymization of the data and a truly temporary conservation of the data, as long as this is useful for epidemiological monitoring", she underlined .
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