MEPs on Wednesday called on the government to step up its action against the serious and long forms of the coronavirus.

In particular, they are asking for an extension of coverage as an occupational disease, until now limited to nursing staff. 

The National Assembly on Wednesday called on the government to strengthen action against the serious and long forms of Covid-19, by developing an "adapted care path" and by extending the possibility of treatment as an occupational disease.

A resolution to this effect from the majority groups (LREM, Modem, Agir) was adopted unanimously, even if the left and right oppositions deplored its limited scope due to its non-binding nature. 

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The text "calls for redoubling efforts to better know, understand and treat this disease" and its "long-term complications".

The symptoms "are as multiple and confusing as they are violent" - respiratory, articular, neurological, digestive, cardiac, renal, skin or even psychological ailments ", recalls the resolution.

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The National Assembly invites the government to intensify research in this area, and to work with the health and scientific authorities in order to develop an "adapted course of care" for "people suffering from persistent complications".

The resolution also calls for "facilitating the recognition as an occupational disease of conditions caused by severe forms" of this disease in cases where it has been contracted at work.

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To date, the government has decided to grant automatic recognition as an occupational disease to only caregivers who have been sick with Covid with respiratory sequelae, a device which many speakers have stressed is too restrictive.

The High Authority for Health published on Friday the first management recommendations for people with prolonged symptoms, suggesting a “personalized” approach coordinated by the attending physician and a “central place” for rehabilitation, especially respiratory.