In a column published in the Journal du Dimanche addressed to the French, five doctors, including Jimmy Mohamed, call for limiting private gatherings as much as possible and to be cautious in the face of the worrying development of the coronavirus epidemic.

Doctors and teachers, including general practitioner Jimmy Mohamed and geneticist Axel Kahn, call on Sunday to "whistle the end of recess" in the face of the deterioration of the Covid-19 epidemic, asking the French to "avoid the private gatherings ".

"We are at a new stage of the epidemic: that of its dissemination (...). There is probably little time left to act collectively," warn six doctors and professors in a column in the Journal du dimanche.

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"After the joy of the summer reunion, it is time to be careful in the private sector. As the epidemic progresses, the probability of being infected in these closed places increases. Friday, in Great Britain, the the city of Birmingham has banned meetings between friends and family ", remind the signatories.

"The smaller a part, the more you increase the risks"

Refusing to be "in the injunction", they believe that it is necessary "perhaps to whistle the end of the recreation" in France: "Avoid, as much as possible, the private gatherings. The smaller a room, the more people it contains, the less ventilated it is, and the more you increase the risks. Reduce the number of people present in the private setting. If possible, postpone any meeting, "they detail.

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Among the signatories are Philippe Amouyel, professor of public health at Lille University Hospital and director of the Alzheimer Foundation, Anne-Claude Crémieux, infectious disease specialist at Raymond Poincaré hospital, Gilbert Deray, head of the nephrology department at La Pitié hospital -Salpêtrière, and geneticist Axel Kahn, president of the League against cancer.