It is written black and white in the report of experts from GEES, the group responsible for deconfinement: “without extremely effective tracing […], the deconfinement strategy presents a significant risk of resurgence. “The fiasco of the Belgian mobile application to” trace “infected people stuck in the politico-institutional Belgian lasagna, a real chaos as Bertrand Henne explains, imposed a new arrangement between the federal state and federated entities.
Will we be ready on May 4, the date of the start of deconfinement?
Right now, each region is working to set up these famous call centers. We were explaining to you here how these work. However, the magnitude of the task facing these cell centers is enormous. It is up to us, moreover, that certain mutual societies could respond to calls for tenders in order to ensure a better ramp-up. Because currently, to engage by May 4 the 2000 investigators recommended by the report of experts, and announced by the government, seems illusory.
If it is therefore the regions and communities (via prevention) that are competent with regard to “tracing”, coordination was needed at the national level. And this coordination will be ensured by the virologist Emmanuel André who has been appointed “Coordinator of the inter-federal committee for the management of” tracing “”. The Walloon Minister of Health, Christie Morreale (PS), confirmed the information to us.
An expert on the issue
Also a member of GEES, the group of experts responsible for deconfinement, Emmanuel André has already spoken on the issue of “tracing”. And for him, as for others, no choice, we have to do it. Emmanuel André talked about strategy in Matin Première: the system developed is “a system that has to follow objectives, to be able to list these people“in order to contact them”as quickly as possible“, to give them the”good medical recommendation“, so that the disease stops spreading. Emmanuel André is now in charge of coordination at the national level. So that Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia can get along and reach the common goal: to break the transmission of the virus.
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