Doctors say “early detection” has limited mortality in Brittany
“The lessons that can be learned about the rapid control of the few clusters that we have had in Brittany is the importance of the early detection”, said Thursday Pierre Pierre Tattevin, head of the infectious diseases department at the University Hospital of Rennes, at a press conference.
Brittany, which has 3.3 million inhabitants, recorded 223 deaths from the Covid-19. In early March, an epidemic outbreak (“cluster”) was discovered in the Morbihan region around Crac’h. A second was identified in Bruz, near Rennes, leading the prefecture to issue an order classifying it “active virus circulation zone”, with immediate action “applicable to the single commune”.
According to this doctor, this experience could be useful in the event of a hypothetical second wave. In addition, “if we use tests widely, we will not miss epidemics that are starting”, especially because “we know the disease better, and people are more alert. It will be easier than in February”, he also said.
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