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The French institution has ruled on measures against covid-19 at a time when new variants of the virus are emerging: avoid talking on public transport, continue to use homemade masks and learned protective gestures, despite new government guidelines.
The French National Academy of Medicine on Friday advised you to avoid talking and calling on public transport, even if you are wearing a mask, but rejected the new recommendation to abandon home masks due to the arrival of more contagious variants of Covid -19 virus.
Following the recommendations of the Superior Council of Public Health (CSSP), the French Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, on Thursday asked the French to stop the use of artisanal masks considered to be insufficiently filtered, as well as less filtering of masks from industrial fabrics (known as the name “category” 2 “).
A reinforcement that “is a precautionary principle,” but which “lacks scientific evidence,” the Academy of Medicine said in a statement Friday, estimating that the effectiveness of masks for the general public has never been flawed when used. “.
“Such a change in the recommendations regarding a practice with which the entire population has become familiar risks creating misunderstandings and rekindling doubts about the validity of official recommendations,” adds the Academy.
He also doubts the idea of extending the physical distance from 1 to 2 meters between two people, a “sentence that is comparable in theory, but inapplicable in practice.”
Despite the “threat” of new variants, the Academy recommends “not to change the gestures of protection as defined and improved in recent months,” but to remember good behavior.
The mask is permanently recommended in the public space “even when the physical distance is greater than 1 meter”, it covers the mouth and nose with the mask …
And the mandatory use of masks in public transport, where physical distance cannot be respected, “must be accompanied by a very simple precaution: avoid talking and making phone calls,” says the Academy.