Thanks to the relaxation of the health protocol in nursing homes and in certain hospital care units, many residents vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to see their families again without thinking of possible isolation on their return.

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"Madame Vieilledent, today you have received the second dose for a long time. Now you have the right to go out, to eat with your children."

Faced with Séverine Laboue, the director of the Loos-Haubourdin hospital group, near Lille in the North, Jeannine, 99, is delighted.

"Yes, I'm going out tomorrow and I'm madly happy," she said at the microphone of Europe 1 this Saturday.

Like many residents of nursing home, Jeannine has only one hurry: to see her family again after long difficult months because of the Covid-19.

This time, there will be no confinement afterwards, when he returns to his room.

A consequence of the relaxation of the health protocol in these establishments announced Friday by the minister in charge of autonomy, Brigitte Bourguignon.

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"A breath of lightness and happiness"

Objective: to restore social life to residents by opening their rooms to families.

These, when they have received the two injections of the Covid-19 vaccine, will be able to go to their loved ones without being tested and without having to isolate themselves therefore.

"What is good is that unlike the other outings, you are not going to be isolated seven days behind," Séverine Laboue confirms to Jeannine.

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And for the director too, the relaxation of the sanitary protocol is a good thing.

"It allows our residents to take the air, if only to walk outside, outside the establishment," she says.

"It also allows them to return to their children, which is very important!"

Still, certain limitations remain: the visits cannot take place "in a place where confinement is decreed", recalls Séverine Laboue.

"But otherwise it's quite free for our residents. It gives a breath of lightness and happiness."

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Because before the relief of the health protocol, many were discouraged at the idea of ​​leaving the establishment.

They did not want to be isolated and be locked up for seven days for a short moment of happiness.