Published on 01/24/2021 at 12:04 pm
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If you have made masks at home to protect yourself against Covid-19, it will soon no longer be possible to put them to work. The corporate health protocol will be adapted to ask employees to no longer use homemade masks, deemed insufficient by the health authorities in the face of variants of the very contagious virus, said Sunday the Secretary of State for Occupational Health, Laurent. Pietraszewski. The protocol to fight against Covid-19 “will very quickly provide that artisanal masks are not required in companies, it is masks for the industrial general public and it is surgical masks” which are, he said. on Franceinfo.
“The government scrupulously follows the recommendations of the High Council of Public Health (HCSP) since the beginning of the crisis”, he insisted, adding that the protocol would be adapted “after, as always, to have discussed it with the social partners “. Henceforth, only three types of masks should therefore in principle be worn: surgical masks (from the medical world), FFP2 (the most protective) and so-called “category 1” industrial fabric masks. This recommendation of the High Council was nevertheless criticized by the Academy of Medicine, for which it “lacks scientific proof” while “the effectiveness of masks + general public + has never been faulted when they are properly worn “.
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Asked about the possibility that a re-containment will be decided in the coming days, Mr. Pietraszewski assured that the executive still gave “today every chance to curfew”, stressing that it had produced “encouraging results “in the departments where it was implemented from January 2. The Secretary of State has also confirmed his desire to be the head of the LREM list in Hauts-de-France in the regional elections, which should take place in June.
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