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Paris- Yesterday, Wednesday, France lifted many restrictions aimed at combating the Corona virus, such as abandoning the muzzle in open spaces.
This decision – which was announced earlier this month by French Prime Minister Jean Castix – came 9 days following the final approval by the French Parliament in its two chambers to approve the vaccination certificate instead of the health certificate, which allows its holder to enter restaurants, cafes, public transport and places of entertainment.
In addition to giving up the muzzle, the decision to lift health restrictions will allow several things; Such as resuming concerts in which attendees can stand, and as for working remotely, it will become recommended, and not mandatory for institutions and administrations.
The numbers are down
The French authorities took these mitigating measures as a result of improved data and a decrease in numbers compared to the previous period that witnessed record numbers, which we note in the number of injuries announced by the French Ministry of Health during the past 24 hours, as last Tuesday 461,896 new cases were recorded, a slight decrease from Last week, 501,635 cases were recorded on January 24.
The indicators provided by the ministry also highlighted this downward trend, and the average number of cases circulating over 7 days was 322,154 cases per day, down 11% within one week.
The number of deaths due to the Corona virus in France since the beginning of the epidemic until yesterday, Wednesday, reached 103,909 cases.
Living with the virus
On the latest field developments in hospitals and their relationship to the decline in indicators and numbers; Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris, Professor Jean-Jacques Zambrowsky, indicated that France has passed the stage of the “Delta” mutant to the stage of the new mutant “Omicron”, which is now the most present among patients in French hospitals, which confirms that despite its rapid spread among citizens It does not lead to more serious symptoms than the rest of the mutant, such as delta.
He added to Al Jazeera Net, “I think that if infection and infection rates continue to decline in this way in the coming weeks and months, and a new mutant does not appear following Omicron, I can confirm that we can get rid of this virus little by little, and we may coexist with it in a way that does not impede and paralyze our social life.” and economics in Europe and the world.
Deliberate infection
And following the entry into force of the vaccination certificate instead of the health certificate, and the French government clamped down on those who refuse vaccination, and following the emergence of the phenomenon of forging health certificates, and the authorities revealed more than 200 thousand forged certificates earlier; A new “confusing and worrying” phenomenon has emerged in France, according to the authorities; It is represented by a group of citizens who refuse vaccination, or who have received two doses and refuse to receive the third booster dose, deliberately picking up the Corona virus in order to obtain a health certificate and evading receiving the vaccine.
It is noteworthy that in France, a certificate of recovery from the Corona virus is sufficient to obtain a certificate of vaccination, which is valid for 6 months.
After the growth of this “dangerous phenomenon”, and the emergence of this segment of citizens deliberately seeking to catch the infection in the hope of obtaining “natural immunity”, according to some, and on the other hand obtaining a “vaccination certificate” for others; Health Minister Olivier Veran warned once morest and denounced it, and appealed to this group of citizens to stay away from intentional infection with the virus, and to take precautions to prevent infection with the Omicron and other strains of the Corona virus.
“The immunity that the vaccine gives us decreases over time, and for this reason, booster doses have been put in place, but – on the other hand – we do not know much regarding the natural immunity that the body acquires following infection with the virus,” Marina Carriar Dancos, a French broadcaster and doctor, told local media.
A “stupid” and dangerous phenomenon
Saklay Zambrosky, Director of Teaching at the University of Paris, stressed that it is a “stupid” and dangerous phenomenon, and has very negative repercussions, because the one who deliberately catches the infection thinks that he will overcome the disease and symptoms following a week of being infected with the virus because the mutant Omicron – according to his opinion – is not dangerous, but this way of thinking Wrong and dangerous, because the infected person can fall into the trap of the virus and worsen his condition and reach the point of death.
He added to Al Jazeera Net, “Certainly, this behavior is very dangerous and irresponsible and exposes the life of the injured and his surroundings to infection and danger. Whoever believes that he will quickly overcome the effects and symptoms of the infection can complicate his condition and enter the hospital and become in a critical situation, as well as the lives of his family, relatives and those around him. It is stupid and uninformed behavior. Responsible”.
He continued, “If this method was useful and practical, doctors and researchers would have encouraged it, and the state would have shortened the distance and saved hundreds of millions of the price of the vaccine, so it is all necessary to warn and confirm that vaccination is the only effective means of resisting this virus. It only leaves behind disease and only perpetuates a lack of awareness.”
He pointed out at the end of his speech that although the state and society cannot prevent deliberately catching some groups from contracting the virus, it is their duty to point out the seriousness of this phenomenon and to resist it as much as possible.
double risk
As for Brigitte Niromy, a pharmacy official specializing in vaccination in the LaCournave area, on the outskirts of Paris, she told Al Jazeera Net, “When it comes to deliberately picking up a deadly virus by a group of people refusing to be vaccinated, I can only be surprised and deplore this behavior and point out its danger, because the person who He is exposed to infection and is very likely to transmit it to his family surroundings and relatives, and here lies the double risk in addition to the risk of exposing the patient himself to strong symptoms that may kill his life, without forgetting, of course, the effects of this virus that continue for a long time with the person even following his recovery and overcoming the virus.
The forty-year-old pharmaceutical official concluded her speech with an example of her young relative who died during the second wave of the virus, although she is in good health and in the prime of life and plays sports, but this dangerous virus does not trust the side, no matter how mild its symptoms are at the beginning, and the most effective solution to resist it is vaccination.
The latest statistics published by the French Ministry of Health indicate that regarding 80% of the population have fully received the vaccine, while 20% of the population is still unvaccinated.