A tent of volunteer rescuers in Isère, in April 2020 (illustration) – ALLILI MOURAD
- Some Internet users fearing the establishment of a “health dictatorship” in the face of Covid-19 are convinced of this: isolation centers reserved for people carrying the virus will multiply in France.
- They want as proof the photo of the entrance to a building, where a poster is posted indicating: “Covid-19 New Aquitaine isolation center”.
- If the photo is authentic, it shows a youth hostel which temporarily allows people who are homeless or who live in an accommodation center to isolate themselves.
Beware if you are sick with Covid-19 or contact case and you live near Bordeaux: you could well find yourself locked in an isolation center!
At least if we are to believe the multiple Facebook publications of recent days relaying the same photo of the front door of a building, on which are plastered two posters: “Covid-19 New Aquitaine isolation center” and “Access prohibited to unauthorized persons”.
“Is the isolation starting?” Are you going to accept that? »,« This is it… It is starting. They are going to lock us up ”, alarmed several Internet users sharing this“ proof ”supposed to demonstrate the gradual establishment of an alleged health dictatorship.
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The photo was taken in New Aquitaine, in a district of Bordeaux. Another photo, taken a little further, shows that these posters are plastered on the entrance of a youth hostel. More precisely the one located at 22 cours Barbey, near the Saint-Jean station, as we can verify
on Google Street View.
“This is a specialized accommodation managed by the Regional Health Agency [de Nouvelle-Aquitaine] and the prefecture for the reception of people victims of exclusion, mainly from the street or accommodation centers which cannot accommodate them without risk of contamination, so that they can carry out their [quarantaine] in good sanitary and medico-social conditions ”, explains to 20 minutes Philippe Rix, director of the diaconate of Bordeaux, the operator in charge of this reception area already accessible during the second confinement, in the fall of 2020.
“The people who are accommodated there are not at all locked up: they are confined for the time of the legal waiting periods related to Covid-19, whether they are infected with Covid-19 or in case of contact: it can be 10 days for some, 7 for others… Since its opening, and on May 18, 2021, we have welcomed 460 people from all over Aquitaine, since it is a regional center ” , continues Philippe Rix.
And the director clarified that the center – highlighted in West France last fall – is “currently empty” but remains open when needed.