Since the start of the week, Health Insurance has adopted a new strategy. She lightens her telephone survey system for contact cases of a sick person, so that we can continue to investigate “zero patients”, those who have been identified as positive.
Between to me and the 1is November, 4,494,242 people had been contacted by the Health Insurance teams, including 1,308,305 zero patients.
“The very sudden increase in the number of positive patients for Covid-19 and their contact cases puts great strain on the requirements for speed and completeness of tracing” , recognizes the Cnam. Since October 20, she has been sending contact cases who could not be reached during the day an SMS indicating the procedure to follow. Since November 3, SMS has become the norm in order to “Focus phone calls on zero patients”.
20,000 people at work?
More than 8,700 agents have participated in the search since mid-May. Will the “tracing brigades” be sufficiently sized during the next deconfinement, to prevent a third wave? In May, the President of the Scientific Council estimated that more than 20,000 people would be needed. Health Insurance hopes that doctors, but also new professions carrying out antigenic tests, will actively participate in tracing.
Extinguishing homes very quickly rather than scattering over sparks requires being very responsive or (and) a broad support of the population to electronic means of tracing. Friday, l’application TousAntiCovid had been downloaded by nearly 8 million people but only 7,383 people had been notified by the app …
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