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The French institution ruled on the measures against covid-19 at a time when new variants of viruses appear: avoid talking on public transport, continue to use homemade masks and protective gestures learned, despite the new guidelines of government.
The French National Academy of Medicine on Friday recommended avoiding talking and calling on public transport, even if wearing a mask, but rejected the new recommendation to abandon homemade masks in the face of 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 called on the French to stop using artisanal masks considered insufficiently filtering, as well as less filtering industrial tissue masks (known as “category 2”).
A reinforcement that “is a precautionary principle” but “has no scientific evidence,” the Academy of Medicine said in a statement on Friday, noting that the effectiveness of masks aimed at the general public has not defects when used properly “.
“Such a change in recommendations regarding a practice with which the entire population had managed to become familiar runs the risk of creating misunderstanding and reviving doubts about the validity of official recommendations,” the Academy adds.
He also doubts the idea of extending the physical distance from 1 to 2 meters between two people, a “proposal defensible in theory, but inapplicable in practice.”
Despite the “threat” of the new variants, the Academy recommends “not modifying protective gestures as they have been defined and improved in recent months,” but remembering good behavior.
It is advisable to permanently mask the mask in public space “even when the physical distance is greater than 1 meter”, cover the mouth and nose with the mask …
And the mandatory use of masks on public transport, where physical distance cannot be respected, “must be accompanied by a very simple precaution: avoid talking and phoning,” the Academy argues.