Covid experts: France should end ‘stop-start lockdowns’
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Covid experts: France should end ‘stop-start lockdowns’
Members of the scientific government advisory council have called on the government to require elderly and fragile people to self-isolate instead
19 February 2021
The report in The Lancet said: Younger generations could accept the constraint of prevention measures (eg, masks, physical distancing) on the condition that the older and more vulnerable groups adopt not only these measures, but also more specific steps By Hannah Thompson
Taarifa Rwanda
Published 3 months ago
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Facemask made from kitenge or other cloth fabric may not guard you against the new variant of Covid-19 virus.
France’s High Council of Public Health (HCSP) has implicitly advised against certain fabric masks that don’t properly filter the virus that causes Covid-19.
The French body said handmade cloth masks filtered only around 70 percent of particles, and recommended the government promote reusable category 1 fabric masks, which filter more than 90 percent, as well as surgical masks, considered to be even more effective.
“With the arrival in Europe of certain new variants of Covid-19, the question presents itself as to what category of mask should be offered to the general population,” declared Didier Lepelletier, an official from the HCSP, earlier this week on BFMTV.
Faced with the new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus, France s High Council of Public Health (HCSP) has implicitly advised against certain fabric masks that don t properly filter the virus that causes Covid-19.