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For several days, the situation has worried in Mayenne on the front line of the fight against the coronavirus. Several epidemic foci have indeed appeared in the department, placed under close surveillance by the French health authorities. "The Mayenne is a place that we monitor very closely and that is a kind of galloping test, in any case a place that is a construction site that allows many people to look at how can begin to recirculate a virus", explains Bruno Lina, professor of virology at the Hospices Civils de Lyon and member of the scientific council, Monday on Europe 1.
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La Mayenne is therefore a laboratory, which reinforces the convictions of the authorities. "We see that we rely on a triptych which is to be able to test many people very quickly, to be able to contact people who have been in contact with an infected person and that we can limit the spread of the virus by placing these people in their fortnight and to reinforce the barrier measures and in particular the wearing of the mask, "confirms the professor. "And when you combine all that, well you can slow the circulation of the virus. And it works, at least at the beginning, that is to say when there is a small epidemic focus that seems to start."
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For the time being therefore, no local reconfiguration envisaged, as in Spain for example. "We are not there yet in France," reassures Bruno Lina. "It is part of the different scenarios that have been imagined to make species of containment zones or other methods to control the spread of the virus. Mayenne is a place where, precisely, we are trying to see if the circulation is much more intense than you think. "
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The virologist also appeals as many of his remarks, so that the barrier gestures and the wearing of the mask are respected "The wearing of the mask has a major role to play in controlling the spread of the virus. It protects against droplet microbes outside, "said Professor Bruno Lina. Then, based on the example of Nice, where a concert took place, certainly in the open air, but without any particular precautions. "Normally, we apply physical distancing and we have not been respected. So, it was a risk-taking that was made clear," he deplores.