As the Covid-19 epidemic reaches new heights and the issue of
generalization of FFP2 masks (for the moment reserved for caregivers) arises, some communities have taken the lead. In Mayenne, the departmental council announced that it was going to provide, free of charge, to all its agents in contact with the public, or around 600 people, these masks deemed to be more protective of the Omicron variant. The objective is to provide “one mask per day to each agent throughout the month of January”, or approximately 12,000 FFP2 type masks, indicates Olivier Richefou, the president of the departmental council of Mayenne.
Also in great demand, self-tests have also been ordered by the thousands in order to be given free of charge to these same agents, in particular in the event that they have been in contact with users who have not respected the barrier gestures, or from the start. emergence of symptoms.
CO2 sensors
While the virus is also actively spreading in schools, the community also indicates that it has made available to its public and private colleges “more than 900 CO2 sensors”. “Additional orders […] are in progress, to continue to provide all the classes that request it, ”she assures us.
In the department, the incidence rate reached 1,222 cases per 100,000 inhabitants on Tuesday, with 55 people hospitalized, only 6 of whom were in intensive care.