criticized for his laxity in the face of the future arrivals in the country and the lack of tests in the airports, France is going to act. Travelers from at-risk countries will be systematically tested in the airports of france, announced the government spokesman Gabriel Attal, Sunday on BFMTV.
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” We are going to systematize the tests at the airport for travellers who come from countries in the so called red, that is to say, countries where the virus circulates, the more “, said the new government spokesman, announcing up to ” 2 000 PCR tests per day “. “Those who have been able to do a test from the country of origin will not have to redo it when I arrived in Paris, France. It will be necessary that they can produce evidence that they have done a test, “he added, specifying that” it’s going to be put in place in the coming days “, without giving an exact date.
free Tests
In the parisian airports of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly, ” barnums “, where will be tested “free” passengers need to be put in place on Sunday, said a source at the airport. The volume of passengers affected by the tests is “quite low,” added the source, ” because the countries in red are sources subject to attestation derogatory for compelling reasons “. These “reds” are not part of the european Union and does not appear on the list of thirteen countries whose nationals are allowed to set foot on the european continent.
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The minister of Health Olivier Veran had indicated Friday work to be put in place in airports “where possible” of onsite oral fluid tests for passengers arriving from risk countries. They are ” proposed “, “you can’t compel someone to have a test,” he said. These rapid tests for diagnosis of infection are still being validated by the health authorities.
“It is constantly adapting to the situation”
Asked on the possibility of making the wearing of masks compulsory in enclosed public places, Gabriel Attal ruled that ” the French are responsible, and when we give them recommendations, they respect them very heavily “. But the government ” thinks all the time, and it constantly adapts itself to the situation “.
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Fourteen reputed doctors have claimed in a column, published Saturday night by The Parisian-today in France, the obligation of wearing a mask in enclosed public places to prevent the outbreak of the Covid-19 leaves, in a context of slackening in the observance of the gestures barriers. Friday night, the number of deaths since the beginning of the epidemic has crossed the symbolic threshold of 30 000 deaths, according to the last balance-sheet newspaper of the ministry of Health, is establishing a 30-004 death.
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