Bruno Lina and Grégory Doucet at the Coronavirus screening center at the Palais des Sports in Gerland.
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The health situation is deteriorating rapidly in Lyon and in the Rhône. Lyon virologist Bruno Lina, member of the scientific council, describes a worrying situation in the department. While new measures could be announced Thursday to try to reduce the spread of the virus.
It’s a bit like the “Monsieur covid-19” in Lyon. Bruno Lina is a member of the scientific council and director of the national reference center for respiratory infectious viruses at the Croix-Rousse hospital, in Lyon. Met at the beginning of February, Bruno Lina paid tribute to the behavior of the French during the crisis: “The French amaze me. Globally, we often talk about the French grumpy. But the work of pedagogy passes. Habits have been acquired, good habits which make it possible to slow down the spread of this virus. Collectively, we are able to understand that we must face together, with a virus that spreads from person to person, that we are all potentially links of transmission and that each individual action will ultimately protect the community.“.
“Regarding barrier and hygiene measures, the French play the game. Regarding isolation, when there are suspected cases, it’s not perfect but it’s better. Regarding the curfew, I find that the French play along. There is a rather good collective behavior and which allows us today to have a certain number of things which are French specificities such as open classes. There are so many countries that have their schools closed“, further explained the Lyon virologist.
Lina: “There is a carelessness in the streets of Lyon”
Except that the situation has changed in Lyon. The number of new cases has increased significantly in recent days. The incidence rate is now close to 400. “The situation is not good in Lyon. It degrades quickly“, explained Bruno Lina on Tuesday on BFM Lyon. “There is a carelessness in the streets of Lyon. Too many people wear the mask badly or don’t wear it“, he worried.
“We must reverse the dynamic […] Too many patients continue to go to work. When you are sick or in the process of being diagnosed, you stay at home […] The hospital is under tension, we tend to forget it“, he insisted.”Everything depends on the behavior (of the population) and on the set of interactions that we agree to restrict. There has to be a real awareness” he added.
Lyon soon to be reconfigured?
16 departments were reconfigured last weekend. Where the virus circulates the most. A third confinement of a new order, where “it is possible to leave home to walk, breathe or play sports, during the day, without any time limit but with a certificate and on the condition of staying within a radius limited to 10 kilometers around home“, according to the Prime Minister, Jean Castex (all the details of this new confinement” to brake without locking up “can be found here)
In these 16 departments, some had an incidence rate lower than that of the Rhône at present … The department is clearly on borrowed time. Basically reprieve.
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