Local elected officials meet this Wednesday morning, by videoconference, around Edouard Philippe and a dozen ministers. It is on them that the executive wants to rely to carry out its deconfinement plan, and to implement the concrete application of the measures recommended to combat covid-19. Among these elected officials, it is the mayors who will have the greatest responsibility. They will thus be responsible for setting the fundamentals of the executive strategy to music.
In addition to their role in reopening schools, they are invited to act at their level on masks, tests, and the isolation of patients. "They know their territories, only they can go into detail," they say to Matignon.
Identification of contact cases, distribution of masks, requisition of hotels
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In detail, it is therefore a question of ordering, with the help of the State, then distributing masks for the general public as close as possible to the inhabitants, same thing for the tests. Mayors, also, to report the needs in their municipality. Their municipal teams can also contribute to the brigades responsible for identifying the contact cases of an infected person.
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Finally, in conjunction with the prefects, elected officials will also have the heavy task of organizing the logistics for isolating the sick, such as requisitioning hotels. The mayor of a big city welcomes these responsibilities entrusted to elected officials: "The government has understood that the state cannot do everything".