Two isolated cases of coronavirus in Seine-et-Marne

For a place to be considered as a “cluster”, at least three cases must be declared there, which is not the case in Seine-et-Marne. From the moment a site is considered a cluster, depending on the situation, elected officials take special measures.

This Wednesday evening, the prefecture therefore took “no specific measures. No city is under bell and no school must close. State services are fully mobilized to monitor the situation. ”

Suspicious cases should call 15

The prefecture recalls that all people with symptoms must call the Samu at 15 and not go directly to the hospital or to their doctor. An appointment is fixed for them at a precise time and place at the Melun hospital, where they are diagnosed.

“If necessary, an entire unit will be dedicated to the Covid-19,” even announced Dominique Peljak, in our columns. The healthcare establishment can fit up to thirty or more patients in single rooms. Four rooms with airlocks are dedicated to patients in the pulmonology department to put them in the fortnight.

Since Tuesday 3 March, the South Ile-de-France hospital group has become a level 2 reference establishment and suspect cases no longer have to go to Bichat, La Pitié-Salpêtrière or Necker, the three Parisian reference hospitals to be diagnosed with suspected coronavirus symptoms.

When the person is tested, they go home and receive the results a few hours later by phone. Next week, the results may be known on site, but this Wednesday again, the samples taken at Melun were sent to La Pitié Salpêtrière.

32,000 masks and 350 calls

Monday, Santépôle had received 32,000 masks, in addition to the stock in reserve. Doctor François Dolveck, chief of Samu 77, reported about 350 calls related to the coronavirus on Monday.

Fabienne Bezio, CGT representative at Melun hospital, reports that “crisis cells are set up almost every day to take stock of the situation”. Randomly on the calendar, thick panes separating the public from the hospital’s emergency workers were installed on Tuesday.

Contacted, Guy Geoffroy (LR), president of the Union of the mayors of Seine-et-Marne, indicates “not to have been informed on the concerned communes” by the presence of the coronavirus.

“The handling of the crisis by the public authorities, as I receive it, gives me complete satisfaction. It seems to me that there is neither under-nor over-estimation. I am naturally worried, like everyone else, about a possible acceleration, but I am very confident and I will adapt to whatever is said, “he continues.