In Monaco, the Minister of State warns: “There may be other measures” against Covid-19
Pierre Dartout, the Minister of State is doing well. He had tested positive the last week of December. Monday evening, in the television news of Monaco Infos, he gave his news. “I feel great, and so do my whole family. Fortunately, we only had limited symptoms.”
Here are 3 points to remember from the Minister of State’s intervention.
1. “We only have limited symptoms and that is thanks to the vaccination.”
The Minister of State, Pierre Dartout, as well as several members of his family, had tested positive for Covid-19 at the end of December on their return from vacation in the Alps.
To our colleagues at Monaco Info, he explained that he and his family were doing well. The opportunity also for him to remind, as he has already done in our columns on several occasions, the importance of vaccination against Covid-19.
“My family and I fortunately only had limited symptoms and that is thanks to the vaccine. I am very happy to have been vaccinated and to have received my third dose (…) Some doctors mostly think that we got the Omicron because of the speed of contamination, but we are not sure (…) it prevents the most serious symptoms. he continued, people in intensive care at the CHPG are people who have not been vaccinated. And that is a lesson for everyone. “
Pierre Dartout also made a point of welcoming “remarkable work” trained by the home follow-up service.
2. The Minister of State in teleworking
Compliance with the protocol in force in the Principality, tested positive the Minister of State was placed in solitary confinement. But without serious symptoms, and with a busy end-of-year agenda – where a ministerial reshuffle is looming – he continued his activities and conducted meetings at a distance. Regarding the reshuffle, he explained that “this decision was in the hands of the sovereign”.
3. New measures to come?
In this new year, Pierre Dartout expressed his best wishes to all residents of the Principality: “We must not lose heart, maintain confidence in science and medicine and in our ability to meet challenges. We must also be united around the sovereign.”
The Minister of State also explained that, faced with this new growing wave, new measures were not excluded: “We will have to reconcile our objective of protecting the population and our objective of maintaining the economic activity essential to the wealth of the Principality. Between these two constraints, we will have to find the right measures and I will have proposals in the coming days. to do in this sense to the sovereign. “